Top pic: Emma pictured as herself, wearing a badge that says ‘Emma for President 2044’.
Bottom pic: Emma as Amelia Earhart, Coco Chanel, Helen Keller and Susan B Anthony.
Mother shuns Disney Princess ideal and dresses daughter up as REAL heroines from history to commemorate fifth birthday!
A photographer has commemorated her daughter’s fifth birthday by dressing her up as five different influential women from history - Amelia Earhart, Coco Chanel, Susan B Anthony, Helen Keller and Jane Goodall - and capturing the images for a photo series.
Jaime Moore from Austin, Texas, wrote on her website JaimeMoorePhotography.com that instead of dressing Emma up as a Disney princess - which is ‘an unrealistic fantasy for most girls’ - she decided to take photos of her emulating real women worth admiring.
‘My daughter wasn’t born into royalty,’ the mother-of-two explained. ‘But she was born into a country where she can now vote, become a doctor, a pilot, an astronaut, or even President if she wants and that’s what REALLY matters.’
Each of the images is accompanied by an inspiring quote from the woman being portrayed.
In the photo that sees her impersonating deafblind political activist Helen Keller, for example, the quotation below reads: ‘Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.’
At the end of the photo series, the photographer has written: ‘Let’s set aside the Barbie Dolls and the Disney Princesses for just a moment, and let’s show our girls the REAL women they can be.’
Ms Moore’s final pictures show Emma as herself, donning a pin on her shirt that says: ‘Emma for president 2044’, a testament to her overriding message that her daughter should dream big.
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