Behind the Scenes of Pageantry: Reflections from a Diet Culture Lens The Appetite

Maddie Louder, Miss Washington 2021, joins Julie Church, Opal's Nutrition Director, to share her personal experience of how participating in pageants was both empowering and detrimental for her relationship with food and body. Maddie shares how advocacy work through the Miss Washington platform was important for her eating disorder recovery journey and also unpacks how the crowns and glitter of achievement culture can have its downfalls.  Maddie's experience highlights the limitations of the "all good or all bad" binary and invites us to embrace the nuances of contest and competition. 
 
To reach Maddie:  
simplysincerelymaddie.com
@maddielouder 
To learn more about pageants: www.misswashington.org
 
Connect with Opal: 
www.opalfoodandbody.com
@opalfoodandbody
@Opal.Movement
 
Thank you to our team...
Editing by David Bazzi
Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Sound engineering by Ayesha Ubayatilaka at Jack Straw Studios