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A female who grew up terrified of nan water is now a master mermaid — making thousands of dollars successful a short play of time.
Elle Jimenez is simply a 34-year-old mermaid primitively from Puerto Rico. She now lives successful Miami, Florida, and performs a mermaid enactment for a living — telling Fox News Digital she tin gain up to $10,000 an hr for immoderate events.
She claims to beryllium nan "busiest master mermaid entertainer successful nan world — sometimes with triple bookings successful a day."
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After overcoming a fearfulness of water, Jimenez said she had to train to go a mermaid, she told SWNS, a British news service.
"I took 3 months of swimming lessons, past went connected to get my scuba certification and lifeguard certificate," she said.
Mermaid Elle Jimenez said she's performed for galore celebrities, specified arsenic nan Jonas Brothers, Bruno Mars and DJ Khaled. (SWNS / SWNS)
"It was truthful inspiring but besides nan scariest acquisition of my life," she said.
Jimenez told Fox News Digital that astir mermaids are paid astir $300 an hr — but she charges anyplace from $500 to $10,000, depending connected nan arena and venue.
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"I execute astatine each sorts of events, from day parties, charging my minimum of $500, to firm events, residency shows, upscale and personage events," said Jimenez, known arsenic Mermaid Elle connected societal media.
Jimenez said she spent 3 months training to go a mermaid. (SWNS / SWNS)
After dreaming of becoming a performer arsenic an adult, Jimenez started her ain entertainment company successful 2016.
She's spent nan past 8 years performing arsenic a mermaid successful a $5,000 silicone tail, per SWNS.
Jimenez said she must repurchase nan silicone tail each 3 years.
"I've performed arsenic a mermaid successful beforehand of galore celebrities, but nan vibes were truthful precocious during his performance, and he conscionable makes everyone truthful happy pinch his music."
Jimenez besides said it takes her astir 15 minutes to get into nan tail and different 5 aliases truthful to get comfortable successful nan space, SWNS reported.
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She besides has 30 cloth tails that are eco-friendly and made of recycled materials — but still costs astir $500 each.
On apical of that, she owns 10 different silicone tops, which besides costs astir $500 each, according to SWNS.
Jimenez owns an intermezo institution and tin complaint up to $10,000 an hour, she told Fox News Digital. (SWNS / SWNS)
Jimenez’s boyfriend, photographer Darren Joshua Leonardi, travels pinch her for information reasons and "looks for illustration Aqua Man."
She said, "I person trained him to beryllium a mermaid, truthful he will beryllium starting to execute pinch me," arsenic SWNS noted.
Over nan years, Jimenez has performed for galore different celebrities, including nan Jonas Brothers, DJ Khaled and more.
Jimenez was 1 of 3 mermaids who helped prevention a scuba diver's life who astir drowned successful unfastened h2o successful Nov. 2022.
She told Fox News Digital that performing for Bruno Mars was "a dream travel true."
She added, "I've performed arsenic a mermaid successful beforehand of galore celebrities, but nan vibes were truthful precocious during his performance, and he conscionable makes everyone truthful happy pinch his music."
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This year, however, she will person her biggest gig yet, she said: nan Formula 1 title successful Miami, Florida, successful May 2024.
"We activity successful sets, truthful for an hr I americium location successful nan h2o aliases sitting by nan pool, and past I will return a break," she told SWNS.
This year, Jimenez will person her biggest gig yet, she said: nan Formula 1 title successful Miami successful May 2024. (SWNS / SWNS)
Jimenez noted that she’s fortunate for not getting backlash on societal media for her unsocial career.
"I deliberation immoderate of nan worst I’ve [gotten] is group saying I americium fake — but that’s obvious," she said.
In Nov. 2022, Jimenez was 1 of 3 mermaids who helped prevention a scuba diver's life who astir drowned successful unfastened water.
It was "incredible" to cognize that a group of mermaids could prevention a scuba diver, she said.
Jimenez told Fox News Digital that she was school an precocious mermaid people certified by nan Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) erstwhile she and nan different mermaids successful training heard personification shouting for thief disconnected Catalina Island successful California.
The mermaids were capable to thief nan man successful request acknowledgment to their fin propellers — and said it was "incredible" to cognize that a group of mermaids could prevention a scuba diver.
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Fox News Digital reached retired to Jimenez for further comment.
Cortney Moore contributed reporting.
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