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swimsuit in front of 20 million
people, I thought that I could pretty
much do anything I wanted.”
Shindle emphasized that “women
empower women by allowing them
to make their own choices.”
Shindle said many people
believe that pageants encourage
eating disorders.
“I’m not saying that doesn’t
exist,” Shindle said, “but I will say
that I knew a lot more girls with
obvious eating problems in my
high school graduating class than I
ever met in pageant competition.”
Shindle said she was shocked at
people’s assumptions about her
when she became Miss America.
“The biggest surprise was that
people assumed that Miss America
contestants, and particularly Miss
America winners, are two things:
really hot and really dumb.”
As a “bookish” Dean’s List
student, Shindle said that “all of a
sudden I got this crown that I’d
worked very hard for, and people
were assuming that I was an idiot,
and that was not empowering.”
Shindle’s platform is AIDS
advocacy. At one point, Shindle
took on President Clinton in the
national press, calling his
administration’s approach to HIV
reduction inadequate. She was also
the first Miss America invited to
take a leading role in an
international health forum, acting
as a panelist for the 12th World
AIDS conference in Geneva,
Switzerland.
Shindle, a Northwestern
University graduate, decided to
compete in pageants for
scholarship money. She had never
participated in a pageant program
before college.
Shindle said she had no idea
how significantly her life would
change when she won the crown.
“Being Miss America taught me
there is nothing more empowering
than helping people,” she said.
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