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6-year-old ‘real-life Rapunzel’ cuts off her hair for kids with cancer

After Charlie Tillotson watched a television show about juvenile cancer sufferers, the 6-year-old British girl wanted to help.

The "real-life Rapunzel," who had always refused to trim her long, blonde locks, told her dad that she wanted to chop off her hair to help kids with cancer.

"I welled up," Charlie's dad, Steve, told the Sidmouth Herald.

"Steve cried and I was just quite shocked when she told me what she wanted to do," said Amy, Charlie's proud mom.

Before the big chop, Charlie asked her community to donate to the charity Children with Cancer UK. She raised almost £1,400 — surpassing her goal of raising "ten-hundred pounds."

"She is ecstatic with how much she has raised, she didn’t even think she’d get £500," Steve said.

On July 14, friends and family gathered at Upper Cut to watch Charlie's charitable transformation.

Charlie donated her hair to The Little Princess Trust.

"The cut went great; she was nervous before but looking forward to it as well," said Steve. "She knew where the hair's going – she wants another little girl to feel like a princess."

"We're both very proud," Amy told the Daily Star. "Now she is saying she wants to grow it back so she can do it again for another child."