Reasons Why Charlotte Lebouff From Disney’s The Princess And The Frog (2010) Will Forever Be My Favourite

reasons why charlotte lebouff from disney’s the princess and the frog (2010) will forever be my favourite disney supporting character and a disney princess in her own right

there are so many horrible ways that disney could’ve taken this rich, white girl but they instead made her a sweet person and a good best friend

charlotte grew up with everything she ever wanted but instead of being a spoilt, awful socialite who was ultimately the villain of the movie and picked on the underdog main character, her best friend was tiana, a waitress (the underdog), who worked herself to the bone and she saw no difference between herself and tiana

it’s not like charlotte was unaware of what tiana wanted and the fact that she was working so hard for a restaurant no one thought she’d open but charlotte didn’t become one of the people who tried to push tiana in the other direction. it may not have been explicit in the movie but i’d definitely like to think that charlotte was incredibly supportive and even encouraged tiana to follow her dreams when tiana felt like she wasn’t going anywhere

charlotte had money but she also had an understanding of the person her best friend was. if charlotte had tried to buy the sugar mill for tiana, tiana would’ve resented her and felt in debt to her for the rest of her life. hell, there was probably a point where charlotte offered to buy it for her and tiana turned it down so charlotte remained supportive of her hard working best friend

have up her own dream to marry a prince when she saw tiana and naveen together. she’d wanted to be a princess for as long as tiana had wanted to own a restaurant but the minute she saw how happy her best friend was and how in love she was with naveen, charlotte agreed to kiss him and keep the promise naveen has made to tiana if he married charlotte

she didn’t see tiana fall down at the masquerade ball and she probably didn’t know why but she still took her up to her room, cleaned her up and put her in the most beautiful dress she could find that would suit tiana. charlotte literally abandoned the guy she wanted to marry because she saw her best friend crying and covered in food, lying in the remains of a destroyed table and went out of her way to make sure tiana felt beautiful

she didn’t press tiana about what made her fall into the table in the first place, if anything, she tried to take her best friend’s mind off it by talking about dancing with the prince and her comment about “well, back into the fray” (imo) was her way of saying “i know you need a minute, i’m going to give you all the time you need until you’re ready to come back downstairs and join us”

didn’t lament the loss of the “man-catching beignets” after tiana fell into the table and didn’t even bring it up again, that would’ve been an incredibly sore spot for tiana and charlotte didn’t make a big thing of it even though she literally paid tiana to make them and serve them at the masquerade

whenever she ate at a cafe or restaurant tiana was working at, she likely overtipped on purpose (as seen when she legitimately pulls a stack of cash out of her dad’s wallet and gives it to tiana without even checking how much she’s given her) because if she couldn’t buy the sugar mill for her best friend, she sure as hell was at least going to help her get the money to buy it herself

was just as excited, if not more excited, when tiana and naveen got married because she is seen practically glowing with happiness as her best friend gets married

she’d been duped by lawrence and the shadowman too, she’d thought lawrence was actually naveen and to a degree it was likely that she’d developed genuine feelings for him but she didn’t make a big deal of it and she showed tremendous strength for someone who had been catfished to that extent

while charlotte doesn’t exactly understand money and the fact that she’s gotten everything she’s ever wished for, she doesn’t force tiana to have the same values and ideals. she’s supportive of tiana making her own way in the world

she’s a good friend, okay? she loves tiana and she actually tries so hard to support her in anyway she can. charlotte didn’t know what was happening in the bijou, she wasn’t aware of the danger tiana was in, but if she had been, charlotte would’ve found the shadowman and murdered him with a single look for what he did to tiana and naveen

charlotte probably covered for tiana when she and naveen went back to the bijou for ray’s funeral and when they came back again, human. the last time she’d seen the two, they were frogs and even though she believed in magic and wished, not everyone did, so she probably made up the most beautiful story for why they disappeared so tiana’s mother wouldn’t worry about her

she didn’t get bitchy and awful like the other girls did when tiana said she couldn’t go out dancing. charlotte spent what time she could with her best friend around the time constraints tiana had and there’s nothing wrong with that

in the end scene of the movie, tiana is seen giving charlotte the biggest hug and charlotte looks so proud of the restaurant her best friends produced, she doesn’t have any spite toward tiana for getting both her dream and charlotte’s

come on, are we going to pretend that Miss Charlotte “The-Most-Fashionable-Woman-In-New-Orleans” LeBouff didn’t help tiana make the most beautiful, stylish restaurant possible then talk it up to every single person she’d ever met to make sure tiana had customers?

i would scrape my own eyes out with a rusty spoon before i allowed absolutely anyone to try and convince me that charlotte was not tiana’s maid of honour when she got married

charlotte literally did tiana’s hair for her when tiana got changed after falling into the table. this rich, white girl did her best friend, a beautiful WOC’s, hair with no complaints and i also love the fact that charlotte probably didn’t even do her own hair but she did tiana’s

charlotte lebouff could’ve been a stuck up, spoilt, awful, villainous bitch but instead she was sweet, caring, supportive and just a wonderful character. i feel like she’s a very good representation of women supporting women and miss charlotte existed before elsa and anna were a concept. charlotte lebouff walked so elsa and anna could run but even frozen doesn’t live up to the sheer love and pride charlotte had for tiana.

the princess and the frog is a wonderful, incredible movie about POC and i’m so happy to be able to call tiana my favourite disney princess (yes, i’m white but there’s so much about what she values that means so much to me) but charlotte was an MVP. her friendship with tiana was one of the best white woman/WOC friendship representations i have ever seen, especially for the time period the princess and the frog is set in, and i feel that no matter what background, sexuality, race, social status, economic status, whatever, women should be able to take a page from charlotte’s book because loving your friends is timeless.

as someone who loves women on so many levels (women are just amazing, they always look so pretty and they’re so wonderful and i could go on for hours about everything i love about women but this isn’t the post for that so i won’t) it makes me so incredibly happy to see a friendship like tiana and charlotte’s (no matter how much time they spent interacting on screen).