A 25-year-old girl who is obsessed with Disney grew
up idolising Princess Ariel and has achieved her dream of making a career out
of being a real life mermaid.
Mirror Online reported that the Redhead Melanie
Long grew up with her bedroom walls adorned with pictures of the princess,
telling anyone who’d listen that one day she’d be The Little Mermaid.
She met her luck five years ago when she moved to
Phuket in Thailand from her family home in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, to
work as a scuba diving instructor. It put her in contact with a Thai children’s
charity that was looking for models to dress as mermaids at a gala ball – an
opportunity she grabbed with both hands.
She made her own mermaid outfit from scratch,
worked on her breathing technique and now makes a living doing her dream job.
Melanie spent a year designing and constructing her
very own silicone tail similar to those used in films such as ‘Splash’ and
Australian mermaid soap opera ‘H2O’. The handmade four-foot long swimmable tail
allowed her to enhance the illusion of a real life mermaid whipping its tail underwater.
She has since found herself in high demand in
Thailand for appearances on television, film and music videos as well as at
children’s parties and weddings.
She added: “Working as a diver you could earn anything between £20 and £80 for a full day of work but being a mermaid was much better paid. It’s a dream job.
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