As the 91st Miss America was crowned Saturday, Jacqueline Janorschke of DeKalb, Mo., was one of the many young women dreaming that one day she would be walking down the runway wearing a beautiful evening gown and sparking tiara. But unlike the majority of hopefuls, Jacqueline has a good chance her dream will come true, thanks in part to own natural beauty, her supportive parents and a new business in St. Joseph called Royal Princess Fashion Pageants.  Amanda Chen, the director of Royal Princess Fashion Pageants, puts on local pageants several times a year, culminating in a March pageant where winners receive college scholarships. She also works with girls and their parents going on to state and national pageants, including providing help backstage so the parents can enjoy the show.

Jacqueline is one of the teenage princesses who volunteers on weekends to help the younger girls. She became a pageant expert at an early age, starting with back-to-back wins of the Miss DeKalb crown at age 4 and the Little Miss East Hills crown at age 5. Now 14, she is the reigning Miss Heartland’s Outstanding Teen in the 13 to 17-year-old division of the Miss America pageant.  Jacqueline has many long-term goals for her future, including winning the Miss America pageant when she is 23. (It will be the pageant’s 100th anniversary). But what she really enjoys most is helping the younger girls with their dreams. She was a judge at one of Mrs. Chen’s pageants last year and witnessed a big change in one of the girls who had competed the year before.

“You could tell how much she had gotten more confident with herself and how much better she was up on that stage, speaking publicly,” Jacqueline says. “Getting confidence about yourself — that’s what it’s all about.”

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