Episode 56: The Pink Dress - A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen by Jane Little Botkin

This week's episode covers The Pink Dress: A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen by Jane Little Botkin. Growing up in West Texas, Jane Little Botkin had no plans on becoming a beauty queen but after joining a pageant on a whim in college, she became the first protégé of El Paso’s Richard Guy and Rex Holt, known as the “Kings of Beauty". A pink, rose-covered gown—a Guyrex creation—symbolizes the fairy tale life that young women in Jane’s time imagined but its near destruction exposes reality.

Triggers:

• • Child Abuse
  • Child Molestation
  • Domestic abuse
  • Emotional abuse
  • Eating Disorder
  • Infidelity
  • Car accident
  • Addiction
  • Animal cruelty

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