SHE’S no has-bee.
Heather DeLoach had her four minutes of fame dancing in a bee costume in a 1993 Blind Melon video, but 15 years later – and contrary to the song – her life is not “pretty plain.”
Now 25, the aspiring actor says her goofy, endearing turn as a pudgy, awkward insect at age 10 continues to generate buzz.
“I thought I would never live this down,” she told The Post from her home in Lake Forest, Calif.
“But this is the best thing that happened to me. At 80 years old, people are still going to be wondering what I’m doing,” she says. “It’s opened so many doors with acting and my personal life, it’s been a blessing.”
In the video, 10-year-old
DeLoach tap-dances in her bee costume and is laughed off the stage – a performance that seems to anticipate the film “Little Miss Sunshine.”
But the “Bee girl” does find redemption.
“Toward the end of the video, she’s at a field and sees bumblebees dancing and running around,” DeLoach says. “She runs toward a group of dancing bumblebees and has found her niche.”
The idea came from a 1975 photograph of drummer Glen Graham’s younger sister, which served as the album’s cover. DeLoach re-created the look for the video.
A graduate of Cal State Fullerton, DeLoach used her fame from the “No Rain” video as a launching pad for appearances in films such as “A Little Princess” and “The Beautician and the Beast.”
“Ideally, I want to own my own production company,” she says. “I am interested in anything in the entertainment industry – if I had my pick, I would do movies.”
DeLoach said she now bears little resemblance to the girl in the video.
“I was definitely a chubby girl,” she said. “Thank God I thinned out. Although I played a nerdy girl in the video, I wasn’t nerdy in real life. I was Miss Socialite. I would put on shows for friends and parents.”
She tried not to broadcast her claim to fame, but friends often make a point of mentioning it.
“When I casually meet people, they don’t know and I don’t display it to them,” she says. “But within an hour, someone is bragging about it, like my boyfriend or my friends, and they’re like, ‘Oh my God, that’s you?’ “