What would a lifetime of housework do to someone physically?

I'm thinking about making a dark (and I mean darker than Grimm dark) short adaptation of Cinderella. The gist of it is that, after a life of manual labor and emotional and verbal abuse at the hands of her stepfamily, Cinderella is extremely bitter and arguably evil.

I want to portray Cinderella as I would think she would actually adapt to such a horrible situation--and physical accuracy is one of my needs here. That brings me to my question: Cinderella is treated like a workhorse since she was, say, 6 years old, up until she's around 20.

So what would over a decade of non-stop labor, throughout childhood development, do to her physically? Would she be calloused and strong? I keep fixing my mind on the fact that she would be bending down quite often--could her spine be malformed?

posted almost 5 years ago

weakdna says reinstate monica‭

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