Miss Mississippi shares plans for Miss America competition

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – Miss Mississippi 2022 Emmie Perkins has labored exhausting to turn out to be the fifth younger lady from this state to win the Miss America crown.

Perkins mentioned, “I couldn’t be extra excited to share my expertise with the world.”

She’s going to get the prospect to carry out in expertise on the second night time of the preliminary competitors at Miss America on December thirteenth.

“I gained’t reveal what I’m singing but,” Perkins mentioned. “However I’m actually excited in regards to the piece I selected as a result of I selected it as a result of the previous my household got here from being immigrants that got here right here from Jezzine, Lebanon, to America. It’s encouraging individuals round me that irrespective of your circumstance, there’s alternative. And the place there’s a will, there’s a solution to succeed and encourage others round you. That’s actually my motto as I head into Miss America.”

Perkins has additionally written a particular tune in honor of the younger ladies who take part within the Miss Mississippi and Miss America applications.

“It’s a tune that defines who Miss America at the moment is, and never who she was. And should you go hearken to a few of the phrases of the tune, it actually tells you who I’d be as Miss America. One among my favourite traces is, ‘It’s greater than a crown to me.’ And I’ve mentioned that from the start of my reign as Miss Mississippi. The crown is only a vessel and a possibility to achieve individuals,” Perkins mentioned.

Miss Mississippi has additionally paid particular consideration to her wardrobe for the nationwide competitors.

Perkins mentioned, “I wished to really feel prefer it was the very best illustration of Emmie that I may very well be. On the finish of the day, it’s not the garments you put on, it’s the individual carrying them. And after I gained a night robe preliminary in Vicksburg this previous summer time, it wasn’t the gown, it was the individual on the within and the wonder that I exuded from the boldness from inside. That’s what I wish to encourage younger women to do after I head to the Miss America stage is that each sort of individual is gorgeous.”

Perkins says as Miss America, she hopes to be a voice for change, empathy, and progress.

“That’s what my job has given me the reward of. I’ve seen a metropolis with out clear consuming water. I’ve seen college students that don’t have a meal after they get dwelling on the finish of the day. And so whenever you see that form of factor each day, you understand how fortunate you might be, and also you understand why you’re doing one thing. And in order that’s what I wish to be as a voice and a champion for those who have lower than, you understand, the common individual as a result of they deserve a foot on this struggle simply as a lot because the individual subsequent to them”, mentioned Perkins.

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