Twenty Two Years Ago....
I walked on stage, hands perched on my pink fluffy dress and great big smile on my lips. Mommy said to make sure to keep smiling and keep my hands on my dress. I loved my mommy so much, we would always go on walks to the park together and she would always get me any toy I wanted or- who's that? Oh! I know it's the bald guy at the big table! "Hello, sweetheart. What's your name?" Oh, he's talking to me! Mommy told me to answer all of the judges questions, wait, is he a judge?! He must be! I smiled and began speaking, "my name's Natalia May Crowe, but you can call me Natty!" The crowd giggled and the nice bald man wrote something down. I wonder what it was? Maybe it was about me! Ooo! I sure hope it was something nice! "Well, Natalia, what are you gonna do for us today?" Oh, I know the answer to that! "I'm gonna do a dance! It's so nice, I'm gonna wear a pretty-" Everybody laughed again. Why do they keep doing that? The bald judge smiled again and said "well then, go ahead!" So I did, I did my dance in my pretty pink tutu and even got to bow at the end! A long time later, a nice lady came up to me, mommy and sissy and handed mommy a card. Mommy smiled really big and when the lady was gonna hugged me and sissy tight.
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Present Day
I rolled over, sighing at the memory. I had been looking through some old pictures and found one form that day. It was the very first memory I could remember from a pageant, it just so happened it would lead me all through my entire life. My modeling contract happened when I was three years old, the day of that pageant. Ever since then, my life has been chaos. At about sixteen, I started doing photo shoots and acting in commercials, sometimes I would only do one to two shoots or commercials a day and sometimes I would do upwards for five a day. That started and never really stopped, even today at 25, I'm doing five, six, seven shoots a day. It gets tough, lucky for me, today I only have three photo shoots and no commercial shoots. Most photo shoots are for fashion ads and sometimes movies, so it's a lot of dealing with stuck up actors and actresses, but I don't mind doing it. I love modeling and I love I get to do what I've always been doing. Everything changed when I first received the contract, especially at such a young age, but I honestly wouldn't trade it for anything. Sometimes, change is for the better.
