In a world full of princesses, be a hot dog.
That is exactly the mentality that 5-year-old Ainsley had when she when she showed up in a hot dog costume to princess day at her dance class.
Grayson Lamontagne and Sarah Nativi are teachers at Holly Springs School of Dance where Ainsley attended, and they tweeted the original photo. Since then, Ainsley is being called a hero and people are hashtagging her photo #hotdogprincess all over social media.
Nativi told BuzzFeed: “Well, the last few weeks of dance class we let the girls dress up and this week was Princess Week, so we were expecting all of the girls to come in their princess dresses. When [Ainsley] got there everyone was so surprised but we loved it and thought it was great that she wanted to wear a hot dog costume. We all took pictures because we thought it was funny that she came to Princess Week as a hot dog,” Nativi said.
Nativi adds that Ainsley wore the costume because it was her favorite.
“She loves princesses, but she wanted to be original and wear a hot dog costume instead,” she said. “She wore a princess costume underneath it and said she was a princess on the inside!”
Lamontagne said she decided to tweet the photos because she loved how comfortable Ainsley was in her own skin.
It was princess day at dance and one little girl came as a hot dog I have never admired someone more pic.twitter.com/iro5mL2Bvc
— Grayson Lamontagne (@graysonl3) May 9, 2016
“I wanted to share the pictures first of all because it was so innocent and cute, and also because I was so impressed with how confident a little girl could be with herself to just wear whatever she liked the best,” Lamontagne said. “Her parents and I agree that it’s a great message for young girls and they are, as I can imagine, very proud of Ainsley.”
Ashley’s dad shared on Twitter how surprised he was that his daughter had gone viral.
No parent is ready to learn that their daughter is trending… #hotdogprincess Best part is it was all her idea! pic.twitter.com/YBmUkRoj4y
— Brandon E Turner (@turnerbrandon) June 2, 2016
Ainsley wound up being invited to open the school’s spring recital on Saturday and she came dressed in her favorite costume once again.
We hope Ainsley continues to be whatever she wants to be, and if it’s a hot dog, we love her for it!
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[Featured Image Credit: Twitter- Sarah Nativi]
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