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It’s only fitting that this next feature story be on the newly crowned Miss Plus America Queens for Washington State, afterall, Rosie credits her start in the plus industry to her participating in the MPA system. Latasha Raines, the Executive Director of Washington Plus America, asked me to be an overall judge for the 2012 pageant. I was beyond thrilled and honored, but never did I imagine a weekend with the queens would have so dramatically changed my life. The Miss Plus America pageant was beyond words. NEVER have I experienced so much positivity and empowerment in one place in my life, this is the kind of movement we try to evoke daily online, but nothing can match the power of human spirit in one spot. After two intense days of judging 26 women who worked SO hard to not only be a queen, but SHOW us they are the entire package.....powerful, smart, beautiful and graceful. Eventually, the time came where the women stood on a stage waiting to hear their fate. One by one the finalists were called and one by one my tears fell. I was so proud and so wished we could give everyone a crown, because they ALL deserved it just for getting up on a stage and putting themselves in front of the brightest spotlight for all to judge them....all while having a smile and being so graceful. What I do on this blog is NO WHERE near the level of those women, and I just bow to them. It was MY honor to judge and stand and applaud and cry with them, now meet the new queens as interviewed by Mandy Allen!
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