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from the archives 💌
with love, from the west coast ☀️❤️ @pebbyforevee

ONE YR AGO!!!! HOW?! shooting with my hype girlssssss in Palm Springs 🫶🏻 let’s do it again soon!!!
@itsneshatorres @shotbynesha @casiewndl by @vsummerw

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5 months ago

MISS NEW YORK USA 2025 Pt. 1 👑❣️⭐️🥺

It’s been one month since I competed in Miss New York USA. And honestly… although I didn’t win, coming back home to NYC on the Amtrak I felt different about myself. I was coming home from probably my most ⭐️iconic⭐️ NYC moment of the last — almost — decade. Competing for the title of @missnyusa.

I was coming home with 100+ new girlfriends and connections. My parents came to support me and got to watch me on stage in a pageant again, like I was a little kid. Friends showed up in person. Friends and family texted me, called me, FaceTimed me, live-streamed, posted, bought teddy bears for the social impact initiative. Shelby, my friend and a local NYC designer, made my dress. @shelbytylercollection @_shelbytyler_

My army. My biggest cheerleaders. Near and far. The people who have loved me and supported me through every risk-taking moment, milestone, failure, pivot, and change of heart.

And it’s taken me a month to really put my reflection into words. Because it’s hard to admit that not winning Miss New York USA… is probably one of the best things that’s ever happened to me. 🙏🙏🙏

I learned a lot of big lessons in my twenties. The decade I moved to New York. The decade I lived in 7 out of 8 of my apartments. The decade I spent time in the gym trying to change my body instead of celebrate it. The decade I started hating FaceTune and most filters. The decade I learned that your size, your status, your clothes, and the makeup you wear do not make you pretty. You are only as pretty as you treat people.
📸 @ashleyioveno by @vsummerw

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a year ago

Five weeks away from Miss New York USA. ✨♥️🗽

While traveling to Albany for orientation yesterday, I reflected (with tears rolling down my face + little sobs of gratitude) on the greatest masterclass of my life, the backdrop of my 20s, and my favorite love story: New York

From moving here 8 years ago with two suitcases, & Broadway dreams, to now real estate deals. To coat drives & casting calls, and @cheernewyork, to working at @cbsnews and casting @90dayfiance & other major network shows, to being a talent manager, model, dance instructor, bartender, to delivering Postmates when I needed money, to walking in NYFW, & being Ashley Graham’s stand-in, to performing in the @macys Thanksgiving Day Parade, to surviving a pandemic, and sleeping on couches when I had nowhere to go, to living in 8 apartments, to launching NYC TEA, working on projects with @pieceofcakemoving, to working in Sales, to being the partnerships lead for Breeze, to my side-hustles; The Kindness Gram/ personalized gift giving & delivery, to dog walking, and every subway ride in between.

There were days I wished I didn’t have to hustle so hard, but looking back, I see that it was just a big song & dance, a production, with entrances & exits, and seasons. This story of grit, & glam taught me that magic & resilience can coexist.

Believe it or not, I’ve spent a lot of my life feeling like I’m not good enough and worrying so much about what people say, or think of me. I’ve made a lot of decisions based on what others would think of them and quite frankly, at times, have been afraid to take up space, because I’m afraid of my own power. I’ve held myself back, I’ve stayed in situations too long, I’ve let other’s guide me when my nervous system was screaming at me to TRUST MYSELF.

But, if I could sum it up and share a glimpse into why I’m competing for Miss New York USA, I’d say this.

You have to STOP trying to fit into boxes, and you have to STOP being afraid of taking up space when all you’ve ever wanted to do is shatter glass ceilings.

I’m so grateful for the opportunity to be proof of what’s possible & to serve a state / city that brought me so many of you, and who made me, me ♥️🥹💗 by @vsummerw

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a year ago

one week, two cities, @victoriassecret, a commercial & two tv shows documented in bathroom selfies ✨✨✨

as a society we talk a lot about “having the audacity” to follow your dreams, but its ✨gratitude ✨ that got me here & an inner knowing that nothing is a coincidence. Everything is serendipitous 🙏❤️

grateful, grateful, grateful by @vsummerw

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10 days ago

omw to shoot my first commercial since ‘99 ❤️ @amtrak by @vsummerw

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16 days ago

💪 💙💙💙💙 @alquan by @vsummerw

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24 days ago

luck favors the girls who refuse to quit. 🍀 ✨ DO NOT GIVE UP ON YOUR DREAMS. PUSH THOSE DOORS OPEN. ROLL UP YOUR SLEEVES. GET YOUR 🍑 UP. Get mad if you have to. This is your ONE life, you are so amazing & purposeful & you have incredible superpowers that are waiting for you to tap into them. Be the reason someone else goes for it, & run head first into fear like you’re a big ole golden retriever and someone left your gate open.

FOOT ON THE GAS RN!!!!!! GO GO GO ⛽️ ❤️ look in the mirror and say September will be my ✨luckiest✨ month yet… because why the hell not

let’s go ya’llll!!! I’m with ya 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻 taken in Paddy Maguire's Ale House by @vsummerw

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ONE YEAR AGO TODAY @missnyusa
what started out as my NYC dream when I was a little girl, became my greatest love story 🤝 🦋✨👑 you and me, girl!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️ ILY NEW NEW YOK

Dress: @shelbytylercollection by @vsummerw

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2 months ago

in studio with @alquan !!!!!!! ✨✨✨✨✨ by @vsummerw

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2 months ago

💜💜💜💜💜💜💜 by @vsummerw

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2 months ago

swim self-tape sunday & a perfect sunny day to use some clips from the tape and yell from the rooftop to STOP HATING YOUR BODY ❤️❤️

I BEG YOU TO CHOOSE TO FIGHT TO LOVE YOURSELF MORE. TO LOVE YOURSELF LOUD, & be bold in how amazing you are and squeal with joyyyy the miracle that is YOU.

I will NEVER stop fighting to be a woman on the internet and on the planet who loves herself, because what if a little girl sees this today, who doesn’t feel like she fits in, or feels like she’s not beautiful or thinks she’s “too big”, or is afraid of her own magic & BADASS self, because her algorithm is screaming at her to be smaller, or to look like/ be like everyone else or mean girls at school try and dim her light or tell her that she’s too fat to be a cheerleader!!! (now I’m really yelling) 📣

thank GOODNESS social media barely existed when I was growing up, but every day I think about where I’d be in life / who I’d be if I listened or cared about what other people thought of my body. What if I’d been too afraid of my own light, and too afraid to take up space? If I wasn’t raised to be fearless in who I am and to shoot for the stars, I wouldn’t have moved to nyc on a one-way plane ticket, I wouldn’t have checked off the boxes I have, I wouldn’t be a model, I wouldn’t be cowriting my amazing life with NYC as my backdrop for almost 10 years. I would have no confidence in myself if I would’ve allowed others to make me dull my ✨

stop playing small and LOVE YOURSELF, because if you don’t figure out how to today, whatever it TAKES!!!, one day you’ll be 85 years old wishing you had more time & wishing you’d loved yourself in THIS lifetime

I’m fighting for you to love yourself 🫶🏻🫶🏻 🥊 ❤️don’t be afraid 🚀✨🤝 LEAP INTO SELF- LOVE, be authentic & set yourself free 🙏🙏🙏 by @vsummerw

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3 months ago

BELIEVE

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YOURSELF by @vsummerw

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