Who is Tinkerbell

1. Tinker Bell can fly!
2. Tinkerbell is proof that good things come in small packages.
3. Tinkerbell has a series of books out called the Pixie Hollow series. She can get girls reading again.
4. Tinker Bell was the character who opened the show Wonderful World of Disney.
5. Tink is NOT a princess. She's a fairy.
6. Tinker Bell has attitude dude!

"When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies." from J.M. Barrie.

From Margaret Kerry on Tinker Bell's Nook:

First, her name is Tinker Bell, two words. "Some people make it one word, but do you know how Tinker Bell got her name?" asked Margaret Kerry, the inspiration and body double for the world's most famous fairy in Disney's animated classic Peter Pan. "She mended the pots and pans for the Lost Boys. She was a tinker. And she never spoke. She just had a bell. So that was her name: Tinker Bell," Kerry said.

Kerry said people tend to think of Tinker Bell as a child or a young teen-age girl. People are always telling her, "My small daughter looks just like you when she's angry or pouting." The next time you watch Peter Pan, take a close look at Tink's figure. Keep your hands on the steering wheel, though, because those are some dangerous curves. "I had just gotten married when I was asked to model for Tinker Bell. My measurements were a 35 bust line, my waist was 25 inches and my hips were 36, maybe 37 inches. That's how the rumor started that Tinker Bell was modeled after Marilyn Monroe," Kerry said. "I had just won the World's Most Beautiful Legs contest, but I didn't tell them. I didn't think Disney would approve. I played Tinker Bell as being childlike. But I was, as you might say today, a babe. I was gorgeous."

Photo from Tinker Bell's Nook