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MormonTimes.com: Miss Utah's focus on pageants, progress
The 24-year-old from North Ogden leaves for Las Vegas on Tuesday, where, along with 50 other women from across the nation, she'll prepare and train for the Donald Trump-owned Miss USA pageant on April 11.
Bachison competed in her first pageant when she was 19 and said performing is what she has wanted to do ever since.
"I have a very direct, guided goal," she said, and she likes that the competition presents new challenges and areas for progression.
"There's so much growth that comes from trying to make yourself better."
When she returned home from the 2006 Miss America pageant as the preliminary round's swimsuit competition winner, Bachison said she planned on going back to Weber State University, where she's working on a degree in broadcasting.
"After Miss America, I thought I was done with pageantry," she said. "(But) I missed it."
"There was just something inside me that said, 'If you love it, you need to pursue it,"' she said.
Performing on television and in front of large crowds is what Bachison said she really loves, but she wasn't always so confident.
"There was always that self-doubt," she said.
Because pageantry is a world of judgment and competition, Bachison said she had to deal with her insecurities. Through gaining experience and spending a lot of time thinking about how she wanted to represent herself, she's learned to trust in her abilities.
"I've definitely had to do a lot of soul-searching," she said. Now, when the judges' verdicts are read, she thinks to herself "No matter what you say or what you decide, I know who I am, and I'm OK with that."
While many people seem to think pageants are full of cattiness, Bachison said she's made a lot of friends and has discovered that she and her competitors are "all girls who are trying to be better."
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