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Date Posted: 01:06:27 01/09/04 Fri
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KY FAN
's message, "New Miss California USA" on 11:26:17 08/31/03 Sun
Ellen is beautiful and the miss competition seemed normal...but does anyone have an idea of what happened in teen????
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Two win pageant titles in Fresno
>Fresno woman finishes 2nd in Miss California USA.
>By Doug Hoagland
>The Fresno Bee
>(Published Sunday, August 31, 2003, 5:31 AM)
>
>
>http://www.tftj.com/miss/USA/04states/CA/EllenChapman.j
>pg> Ellen Chapman- Miss CA USA 2004
>
>Two Miss Californias got crowned Saturday night in
>downtown Fresno.
>Ellen Chapman, Miss San Francisco Bay Area, won the
>Miss California USA Pageant. Deventria Howard of
>Fresno placed second. Stacey Beltran of Ventura County
>won the companion Miss California Teen USA Pageant at
>Saroyan Theatre.
>
>Like any competition, the pageants can stomp on the
>emotions of those who choose to play. Howard knows.
>Six times she has entered the USA pageants: three
>times in the teen category (she finished second in
>2000) and now three times in Miss California USA,
>where she has been a finalist but never a winner.
>
>The exuberant 20-year-old explained earlier in the day
>why she keeps coming back: "I'm telling you, I can't
>help myself. It's like a weird addiction. ...
>
>"When I don't make the cut, I'm so mad -- of course,
>I'm happy for the winner, yada, yada, yada -- but
>there's only one winner, and what happens to the rest
>of us?"
>
>Howard went to a private pageant trainer this year,
>and he sent her to a walking coach who told her to
>hold her head higher and not to swing her arms so much.
>
>Howard is tempted to say this is her last year, but
>she knows better than to take the "never again" pledge.
>
>"I've said that before and stuck my foot in my mouth.
>It's like the pageant calls me, 'De-ven-tri-a, you
>better start getting ready. Because you are going to
>compete.' "
>
>Winners or not, contestants offered various reasons
>for competing.
>
>Brittany Richardson of Fowler shed her usual persona
>-- soccer-playing tomboy with a school nerd streak --
>to go for the rhinestones, and she said the process
>showed her something new about life.
>
>"I got to experience being attractive, young and
>beautiful," the 17-year-old high school senior said
>with wide-eyed sincerity.
>
>So how is it to be attractive, young and beautiful?
>
>"Hard work," Richardson said. "I'm telling you, it's
>not easy to put on makeup and heels every time you go
>out in public. I'm telling you I'm even putting on
>makeup and jewelry to go to Grizzlies games."
>
>Richardson, an "A" student, joined 118 other women
>from throughout the state in two pageants. The two
>winners will get $5,000 apiece and will represent the
>state next year in nationally televised pageants.
>
>Jennifer Burch, 21, of Fresno competed in the USA
>Pageant. She packed weights in her suitcase so she
>could keep working out during the pageant, which began
>at midweek, and she tried to remember the words of her
>speech coach. "She says I say my 'ands' too nasally,
>and it's apparently not a good thing."
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