Jaclyn Stapp was featured on the September Issue of HERLIFE Magazine.
From beauty queen, to anti-bully advocate, Jaclyn Stapp is using her platform to promote awareness for an issue facing many children across the nation. Following her appointment as a national celebrity spokesperson for an anti-bullying campaign called NVEEE (National Voices for Equality, Education and Enlightenment) and with the release of her new children’s book about bullying, Wacky Jacky: The True Story of an Unlikely Beauty Queen, she chats heart-to-heart with HERLIFE Magazine about the release of her true story, her busy life as a wife and mother, and about the importance of being kind and giving back to the community.
Looking at Jaclyn Stapp, it’s hard to believe that at one point in her life she was taunted and teased because she seemed different. “I was a scrawny, thin and an athletic girl who looked like a boy,” Jaclyn says. “I often got teased in school because of my thick wild hair and for speaking a different language or eating unusual food. My confidence changed one day when in the mall, I saw an advertisement for a pageant and was very interested to enter. Instead of my mom asking why, with encouragement she expressed, why not?
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