Mermaid Elle, a.k.a. Elle Jimenez, talks about the aches, pains and training her job as a professional mermaid takes.

A quick thinking professional mermaid was seconds from disaster after her tail became stuck at the bottom of a massive aquarium tank in a South Africa shopping mall on Saturday.

Of course, my tail was only a few pounds compared to the heavier ones some of my fellow merfolk were wearing, climbing as high as 35 pounds. A woman dressed as a mermaid swims with her mermaid tail.

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Special effects company designs working mermaid tail for double-amputee. March 12, 2009— -- When a 4-year-old boy approached her at the beach to ask why she had no legs, Nadya Vessey, a ...

Entrepreneur Tom Glanfield displays three Great Tail Trail mermaid sculptures at Sandbanks, supporting Julia’s House children’s hospice after £201,100 raised.

Mermaid Jenna Moll-Reyes, middle, takes in some sun with her fellow mermaids, with Wands and Wishes Occasions, who all dressed for the festivities at Cowabunga Beach on Aug. 4 in Federal Heights ...

Regardless, wearing the mermaid tail “fulfilled all my little girl dreams,” Bailey said. “The Little Mermaid” is the latest in Disney’s string of live-action reinterpretations of their ...