I found out a few days ago but before that I had NO IDEA! Her name is Leah Chase and went through a similar story that Tiana went through (minus the whole frogs, magic, voodoo, and talking animals thing) and even shared some of her story and her thoughts on the movie.

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Yep. I knew about Leah Chase quite a while ago.

I had no idea that's so cool!

I knew her story in the movie was inspired by The Frog Prince/The Frog Princess or whatever that book is called, but I didn't know she was inspired by a real person. That's pretty damn cool.

That's very interesting!