get over my fear of snakes

i don’t ever remember NOT being afraid of snakes.
I have never liked them.
but I didn’t know how bad this really was until we got these fake snakes in at work.
It is a webkinz tiger snake if you’d like to see the picture, you can google it. I don’t want to :)
Anyway, a customer bought one and when I went to ring it I found I couldn’t pick it up. I ended up having my sister, who works with me, bag for me.
I then decided maybe I was just being dramatic, but I went over to the display and tried to just touch it and I couldn’t bring myself to do it. i kept trying but I just can’t do it and now everyone knows of my horribly irrational fear.
I don’t want to touch a real one, I just don’t want to be scared of fake ones!!