Alexis Smith, the new Miss Kansas, said she's advocating to end domestic violence.
A beauty pageant contestant who was later crowned Miss Kansas stunned spectators when she said on stage that she was a survivor of domestic violence — and that her abuser was in the audience.
“But that’s not going to stop me from being on this Miss Kansas stage and from representing as the next Miss Kansas,” she added, her voice growing louder as the crowd erupted in cheers. “Because I and my community deserve healthy relationships. We deserve a domestic -free life.” “My family, every single woman in my family, was impacted by domestic violence,” she told WSN. “At the age of 14, I got in my first relationship, but it was also an abusive relationship that I was in until about 2018, 2019. It’s something that I’m still experiencing and dealing with today.”
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