We’ve shares stories before of amazing senior women. Remember Carmen Dell-Orefice? She’s the fashion industry’s oldest working model. At age 85, she’s still rocking the runway. How about Tao Porchon-Lynch? She’s 98 years old but still travels the world teaching and practicing yoga. Their busy schedules and enthusiastic practice have kept these women young well into their years. The women in the video below, similarly stay young through one, unexpected activity… a beauty pageant!
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The ladies vary in ages and have done a wide array of things with their respective lives– from being the first woman to operate a forklift at the Kennedy Center to serving in the Polish army during WWII– but today they all share in one thing in common: the Miss Senior America pageant.
“We have lived long, responsible lives,” says one contestant. “Been mothers, been office workers, been leaders. And now we’re playing.”
And boy do these women know how to play!
The Miss Senior America contestants are proving that the best life has to offer isn’t reserved only for young people.
As Dolores M. Hofman– Miss Connecticut– puts it: “There’s a lot more to life that happens after 60 that people don’t even think is possible!”
The oldest contestant is Krystyna Slowikowska Farley (AKA Miss Connecticut). “I’m 91 years old, so I’m supposed to sit at home and say ‘don’t touch me’ and ‘I don’t know nothing?’ No! I’m gonna be Miss Senior Connecticut and I’m gonna flirt with the guys!”
But for Miss Connecticut, the pageant isn’t just proving a point. It’s her escape. “I have plenty of pain. So what? Big deal. Those pains are there because you’re old! I go on the stage, music starts playing, and I start dancing… and I forget about the pain.”
Check out the video below for a look at the Miss Senior America pageant and share!
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