![]() The next day I woke up and I told my mom, “I want to be Miss South Carolina next year, and I am going to work every single day to become Miss South Carolina.” Today's is becoming so different to the pageant that I knew and loved.Ī judge came up to me and said, 'If you got plastic surgery, you might be able to win next year.'īut it made me even more determined to win. They don’t want to see Miss America completely changed. There are a lot of people out there, people who have been a part of the organization, who are not thrilled about all of this - I know people within Miss South Carolina who are concerned, a good friend of mine at the national level. The first thing I thought when I heard was, “this pageant’s in trouble.” It made me sad, it really did. I don’t love that, but I do love watching those young women hit the stage and having confidence knowing they are being watched by hundreds, thousands, millions. Now, just do their funky thing out there their bodies are incredibly sculpted now, and the swimsuits are a lot less material. The walk was very important: gently swinging your arms, fingertips brushing the sides of your legs. We would walk out, get in our pageant stance - which I had worked on in a funeral home in Sumter, South Carolina, go figure - and do our turns, and then we would leave. Vesuvius, and we were like “Yay, we did it!” and suddenly it’s not important. And you know what I’m seeing? It's the contestants who really struggled to get their swimsuit figure for stage, they’re the ones who are saying “What? Why?!” It was kind of like we climbed Mt. I knew I could interview, I knew I could sing, but I tell people, " that swimsuit about did me in!" But I don’t think you learn who you are until you put yourself in uncomfortable and challenging environments. ![]()
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