Mum accidentally hires stripper for Barbie-themed party for 5-year-olds

Throwing a kid’s birthday party is no easy feat - even super mums can drop the ball.

From ensuring that everyone is catered for - from diets and allergies to the sheer amount of food, making sure no one is excluded, sad or having a hard time, to pulling all of the strings to ensure your kid feels special on their big day - it can be a high-risk balancing act planning a birthday bash.

That being said, it’s no wonder the internet is full of shock tales like this one, when a mum accidentally hired an adult entertainer for her little girl’s fifth birthday.

To make matters worse for said mum - but rather entertaining for us - she has been outed by her daughter years later in a clip that has now gone viral on TikTok, especially because of the ongoing Barbie-mania taking the world by storm.

Julie, who was about to go see the Greta Gerwig flick, was reminded of the party years ago and decided to share the hilarious moment on social media.

She starts her video by saying, “My parents hired an adult entertainer for my 5th birthday party by accident.”

Wearing a bright pink shirt in honour of the Barbie film - and ensuing Barbie story - Julie explains that when she was 5, she asked for a Barbie-themed birthday party, much like every little girl at the time.

Her mum was pleased with the theme and decided to hire an entertainer that she had found in the phonebook to attend the party as Barbie - as you did in those days.

However, this old school method had its dilemmas, seeing as though there wasn’t always photos next to the numbers.

Of course, a woman called Barbie “shows up and she is a stripper”.

Barbie, being the professional she was, changed her routine to suit her young audience, and the party was a smash hit.

“She did not take off her clothes,” Julie recalls. “I followed her around thrilled that Barbie came to my birthday party. And all of the parents there had a really good laugh.”

This article was first published by the NZ Herald and is republished here with permission.