These
are photos of me at a beach party organized for contestants of the 2003
Miss Nigeria pageant. I bet some of you didn't know I once contested? I
told y'all I was a hustler back in the day..lol. Anyway,
I desperately wanted to win the pageant because I believed I could use
the platform to achieve my other dreams. I imagined all the
possibilities, starting an NGO, having a TV show, rubbing shoulders with
important people etc. I was a little famous back then as a model and
when word got out that I was contesting, many of the soft sell magazines
reported it.
About a week before the pageant, I was so
sure I would win it that I started making plans for life after being
crowned Miss Nigeria 2003. Most of the models and designers in Nigeria
were behind me, even the press, so what could go wrong? Plus I'd
organized the Miss Unilag pageant for 3 consecutive years so I knew what
it took to win a pageant..or so I thought!
And
then the day of the pageant came. After all the 26 contestants were
introduced on stage in different costumes, it was time for the Top 10.
We were all asked to go backstage so they could call out the 10 girls
who had advanced to the next stage. I remember standing backstage with a
huge smile on my face waiting for my number to be called. It was never
called. Continue...
