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A western Kentucky woman is headed to Las Vegas to compete in the Mrs. America pageant later this week. As Duncan Sandlin reports, the competition will determine who represents the country in the Mrs. World competition held in Sri Lanka this November.
She reflected on growing up with a speech impediment and how it felt to sit down at the school lunch table only to watch her classmates get up and leave, and said it led to feelings of insecurity. But now, Mrs. Kentucky said competing in pageants helped her learn to embrace who she is, who she wants to be, and she’s comfortable in embracing her differences. She said she’s no longer “trying to fit a mold of what [she] thought the typical pageant girl should be.”