Let me spill the tea on a little life secret I learned from a most unlikely source: a beauty pageant. Yes, you heard that right. Those sparkly spectacles of smiles and sequins taught me a thing or two about the power of words to shake up the world. Every February for well over fifteen years, I gave up a very long evening to attend a local-level beauty pageant I had zero interest in. What I did have an interest in, however, was seeing my daughters dance. Their dance teacher, a beauty pageant alum, choreographed the pageant’s physical fitness routine and volunteered her dancers as tribute to fill time while the judges deliberated the winner. The ruse ensured the scholarship coffers stayed full, and there would be butts in the seats. While I would never pass up an opportunity to watch my girls on the stage, the whole shebang always left me with a lingering sense of... well, fakeness.
Beauty Pageant Wisdom
Beauty Pageant Wisdom
Beauty Pageant Wisdom
Let me spill the tea on a little life secret I learned from a most unlikely source: a beauty pageant. Yes, you heard that right. Those sparkly spectacles of smiles and sequins taught me a thing or two about the power of words to shake up the world. Every February for well over fifteen years, I gave up a very long evening to attend a local-level beauty pageant I had zero interest in. What I did have an interest in, however, was seeing my daughters dance. Their dance teacher, a beauty pageant alum, choreographed the pageant’s physical fitness routine and volunteered her dancers as tribute to fill time while the judges deliberated the winner. The ruse ensured the scholarship coffers stayed full, and there would be butts in the seats. While I would never pass up an opportunity to watch my girls on the stage, the whole shebang always left me with a lingering sense of... well, fakeness.