Laura Goode Pageants

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Laura Goode interviews five women that have been in a pageant show tell their personal anecdote and even gives her own experience and opinion. Out of the five women all of them loved to do the pageants, only one talked about her bad experience; She fell in love with pageants but had problems with the girls causing her to be very insecure of herself, pageants also had her have very high expectations, but as she tells Goode that even though they made her have a low self-esteem they thought her how to face the world. Some of the girls say pageants helped them, such as Robbie Meshell who’s mom committed suicide when she was only ten, going back to participate in pageants without her mom was very difficult but overcame it by making her topic suicide

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