10:42 pm - 08/18/2012
Surely a Disney princess, she of the impossibly bouncy hair and whittled waist, doesn't need any work done, right?
Well, don't ask a plastic surgeon that, because apparently, the iconic Little Mermaid was a prime candidate for few procedures (OBVIOUSLY! She's such a hag.) BuzzFeed's Copyranter spotted this ad from Clinica Dempere, a plastic surgery center in Venezuela, who decided to give Ariel the old nip and tuck anyway in a new spot for their services.
Watch as Ariel escapes from the evil Ursula. What does she do next? Beelines it to the operating table, where, sprawled out before a beckoning surgeon, she gets her wishes granted without giving away her magic voice box.
So, what procedures did the Little Mermaid opt for? She seems to have gotten the full "Real Housewives" treatment with a boob job and a widened pout. And somehow, the doctors in Venezuela managed to sculpt a pair of sexy human legs outfitted with stilettos out of her mermaid tail. It's so magical!
While people have tried to digitally slim down other "Mermaid" characters in the past, the introduction of cosmetic surgery into the pot is definitely an even more somber message to young girls. The clinic's ad is surely an attempt to be cute, but seriously, Ariel: you look great under the sea as is.
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WTF! (Also not to flame her but I always thought Ariel was....not the brightest of the Princess bunch.)
The Little Mermaid Gets Plastic Surgery In Questionable New Ad
Surely a Disney princess, she of the impossibly bouncy hair and whittled waist, doesn't need any work done, right?
Well, don't ask a plastic surgeon that, because apparently, the iconic Little Mermaid was a prime candidate for few procedures (OBVIOUSLY! She's such a hag.) BuzzFeed's Copyranter spotted this ad from Clinica Dempere, a plastic surgery center in Venezuela, who decided to give Ariel the old nip and tuck anyway in a new spot for their services.
Watch as Ariel escapes from the evil Ursula. What does she do next? Beelines it to the operating table, where, sprawled out before a beckoning surgeon, she gets her wishes granted without giving away her magic voice box.
So, what procedures did the Little Mermaid opt for? She seems to have gotten the full "Real Housewives" treatment with a boob job and a widened pout. And somehow, the doctors in Venezuela managed to sculpt a pair of sexy human legs outfitted with stilettos out of her mermaid tail. It's so magical!
While people have tried to digitally slim down other "Mermaid" characters in the past, the introduction of cosmetic surgery into the pot is definitely an even more somber message to young girls. The clinic's ad is surely an attempt to be cute, but seriously, Ariel: you look great under the sea as is.
SOURCE
WTF! (Also not to flame her but I always thought Ariel was....not the brightest of the Princess bunch.)
I just think it's a shame that in order to make it work, they took a fairy tale with NO villains and turned two female side-characters, the sea witch and the random woman who discovers the prince, into a villainness. Especially when the sea witch was originally not evil, just pragmatic and blunt.
I also like how it's one fairy tale where the young girl DOESN'T want love and riches above everything else. She wanted a soul, to become truly human. And she works really hard to get it, instead of being passive. The prince was just a part of that. And the prince wasn't evil, either, he just didn't love her back in the same way.
idk it's a really haunting and powerful story and I wish they had kept at least a little of that. The older Disney movies were able to keep some of the gothic, scary, unpleasant elements while still changing it to a totally happy ending.