This is Ainsley. She is 5. During Princess Week at her dance class she decided she would rather dress as a hot dog.
Pictures of Ainsley started being shared widely on Twitter last week after being picked up by popular comedy accounts, as well as by YouTube star Tyler Oakley.
People loved Ainsley's strong and original fashion choice.
The original photos were posted in mid-May by Sarah Nativi and her friend Grayson Lamontagne, who teach at Holly Springs School of Dance in North Carolina.
Nativi told BuzzFeed News the story behind the photos: 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.
She added 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!"
"The whole next week I couldn't stop telling everyone about it and they couldn't stop talking about how precious it was and how it made their whole week," she said.
She said she decided to tweet the photos because she loved how comfortable Ainsley was in her own skin.
"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," she 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."
theprintedray84 on October 28th, 2021 at 14:47 UTC »
March to the beat of your own drum.
Spartan2470 on October 28th, 2021 at 15:27 UTC »
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katiejim on October 28th, 2021 at 15:42 UTC »
r/notlikeothergirls The narrative should really just be “Be whatever the hell you want!”