Illustrator Imagines Disney Princesses As Moms And The Artistic Result Is Entirely Relatable And Adorable

Which Disney Mom will you relate the most to? You might be surprised...

Elana

• Published in Disney
• September 2, 2021

Chabe Escalante is a freelance illustrator out of Mexico with an absolutely adorable artistic style. She was commissioned to do a series of Disney Princesses as modern moms for Buzzfeed and by golly did she deliver!

Each of the 12 illustrations highlight her distinct style, pulling individual elements from each classic Disney Princesses into a modern version of a mom, ensuring that the identity of each character is simultaneously unique and undeniable. Each Mom-Princess has a story, too, that is unique to her motherhood experience certainly, but more importantly... relatable to real-life motherhood experiences, too.

Which Disney Mom will you relate the most to? You might be surprised...

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1. Anna

Her mom life: Anna feels like she is always in the sled, carting her kids around town to ice-harvesting class, magic lessons with the troll king, and play dates with Olaf's many snow kids.

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6. Belle

Her mom life: Belle is a dedicated homeschooler but finds it is a lot harder to teach her kids than it was to teach the Beast. He says, to her ire, “I was only a good student because I thought you were a hottie, Belle.” 

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9. Sleeping Beauty / Aurora

Her mom life: Aurora has a teenager who sleeps in way too late. This drives Aurora nuts, but when she calls her daughter on it, she says, "Whatever, Mom. Dad says that when you were my age you slept for days!"

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12. Mulan

Her mom life: Mulan has a super-girly daughter who she does not know what to do with. Many nights she complains to Li Shang, "I single-handedly defeated the Huns, and yet she worships Miss Chen from next door because she's good at makeup!"

13. Snow White

Her mom life: Snow White has a tween who sits on the couch all day. This infuriates Snow White, who complains, “You have no idea how easy you have it. When I was your age I had to do menial labor!"

14. Ariel The Little Mermaid

Her mom life: Ariel is constantly battling her husband over how much freedom they should give their teenager. “Are you kidding, Eric?" she often says. "When I was her age I thought a fork was a comb and practically sold my soul to a witch to get a boyfriend! There is no way she's going to the fair alone!” 

15. Rapunzel

Her mom life: Rapunzel was stuck inside a tower her entire childhood and has vowed not to subject her kids to that. She's now a "free-range parent," and even wrote a book on the subject, Let Your Kids Down From the Tower.

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17. Tiana

Her mom life: Tiana struggles to get her 4-year-old to eat anything except beignets. She's so desperate to get her kid to eat better that she's taken to grinding up veggies and hiding them in her beignets.

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19. Cinderella

Her mom life: Cinderella is the ultimate Pinterest mom. She DIYs her kids' gorgeous clothes (with a little help from her now-elderly pals, Jaq and Gus), bakes amazing cakes, and uses eco-friendly home-cleaning techniques.

20. Pocahontas

Her mom life: Pocahontas is the leader of her daughter's Girl Scouts troop and loves taking the girls on nature hikes to see "the colors of the wind." She does not, however, enjoy trying to sell cookies outside the marketplace.

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22. Merida

Her mom life: Merida has her own set of triplets she can't seem to potty train. This drives her mad, especially when they pee around the potty. She often scolds, "If I can hit a bull's-eye from a hundred yards, you can tinkle in the toilet!"

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24. Jasmine

Her mom life: Jasmine is a PTA mom and strikes fear in the eyes of the school administrators because she's tough and doesn’t let her kids suffer any injustices.

Elana