Sam Alvey and wife Brittany McKey Alvey pose with their children. Mike Roach/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC/Getty Images
As part of her winning prize package, the model appeared on the cover of Seventeen magazine and starred in a six-page spread, won a contract with CoverGirl cosmetics, and a contract with Elite Model Management.
She continued to model, appearing on the runways of Amsterdam International Fashion Week and New York Fashion Week in 2009.
However, Sullivan, now 32, largely left the world of modeling behind following her season to help raise her young family and support her husband, Sam Alvey, in his UFC career.
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State lawmakers in more than half the country are pushing legislation to restrict the rights of transgender youth in health care and education.
Arkansas passed a bill prohibiting doctors from performing gender reassignment surgeries and providing other health care services that aid gender reassignment.
Children will die : Transgender advocates warn about risks as more states consider banning gender-affirming care for kids Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY
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Willow Breshears knew she was different for as long as she can remember. Growing up in rural Arkansas, she said she often felt depressed her personal discoveries about herself quashed by social norms and Baptist teachings.
Now 18 and living in Little Rock, the transgender activist recently testified before lawmakers as part of an effort to try to stop the passage of a proposed state law that, among other things, bans doctors from providing gender-affirming care such as including puberty blockers and hormone therapy to youth under 18. She and others protesting the measure were unsuccessful.
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Carol Lynn Smithson Sinsel, 64, of 167 Cole Street, Philippi, went to the feet of her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on Jan. 12, 2021, at her home surrounded by her family after fighting a courageous battle with cancer.
She is the daughter of Anna Gale Roberts Smithson and the late V.L. “Sonny” Smithson of Belington. She was born Jan. 28, 1956, in Parsons.
She married Steven Hall Sinsel, who has been a wonderful husband and care giver, on Aug. 20, 1977, at the Belington Baptist Church. They had celebrated 43 years of marriage.
Surviving are her daughters, Stephanie Danielle Sinsel and granddog, Neiko, of Morgantown, Bronlyn Nicole Smith and husband, Ben; and her precious granddaughters, Maggie Jade and Mia Kathryn, also of Morgantown.