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this shoot was super fun to be on.

i tagged along with bree today to her rumpelstiltskin shoot.

this is the girl in the story.

if you're not familiar with the story

or don't remember it,

here it goes...

a peasant lied to the king about his daughter being able to spin straw into gold. (why the hell would someone do that?! did he not think that maybe the king would want to see this miraculous process with his own eyes?) the king takes her and locks her away in a tower and orders her to spin all the straw into gold by morning or face death (i don't get why he wouldn't wanna witness it! if i were king and someone said they could spin hay into gold, hell, i'd be pulling up a recliner!). then rumpelstiltskin comes and, in exchange for her ring, spins the straw into gold. the next time he does it again in exchange for her necklace. the third night, with nothing left to give him, the girl offers him her firstborn child. he accepts the deal (shady much? what's he gonna do with a baby anyway? from the sound of the story, he's a heinous little toad. i'm thinking black market.)

anyhow,

the king (greedy bastard that he is) marries the girl. (and i guess stops making her make gold. why? i have no idea? i mean, you can't have too much gold, right? i think not.) anyway, they get on with the baby making and nine months later have a bouncing bundle of joy. rumpelstiltskin comes a-calling and the girl (now queen, though why anyone would wanna be queen is beyond me! have you seen how much weight kate middleton has lost due to stress? yikes. even the president for that manner. look at obama and all the white hair he's gotten in the past 3 years. looks good on him, but still!) anyway, she offers him all her riches and wealth but rumpelstiltskin will only be satisfied with the baby. but he makes a deal- if she can guess his name, the deal's off and gives her 3 days to figure it out.

long story short- she sends her servant to find out but she's wrong the first two days. the night before the last day, the servant finds rumpelstiltskin's cottage and sees him dancing around the fire singing his name. the next day, the queen guesses right and gets to keep her baby. (where's the king in all this, by the way? jeez, absent father- kid's gonna grow up with a complex.)

this is where the story gets weird(er?) and everyone disagrees on what happened to old rumply. he threw a fit and stomped his foot. this is where people disagree- some say he opened up a chasm and fell into it never to be found. some say that he sunk his whole leg into the ground then proceeded to grab his other leg and tear himself into two. (gross, who comes up with this shit?)

anywaaaay!

bleh.  

but the girl bree found to be our model was,

of course,

beautiful.

and here she is...

the girl who spun gold