An Online Achievement Pageant Honoring the Full Figured Woman

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Mrs. Alabama 2007-2008

Sandy Freeman

Sandy Freeman is a 5’ 3¾ ” green-eyed 38 year-old brunette who comes from a long line of full-figured women on her mother’s side and a long line of small boned women on her father’s side. Being caught in the middle can present some interesting challenges to find clothing that fits comfortably and attractively.

Her favorite activities include singing, cooking, gardening, swimming, and enjoying her grandsons and her animals. She lives in the country on the water with her husband of 8 years, Clent, from whom she acquired two-stepsons, and their menagerie of animal “children”. They have seven dogs including an 8 year old Boston terrier, a cat that’s 9 years old and an aquarium full of fish. Their grandchildren live close and are a constant joy in their lives.

Sandy has been a full-time commercial insurance specialist for 15 years and is agency production/ commercial department manager for a local independent insurance agency. She and her husband also own a retail store named Biker Heaven in Lexington, AL which sells motorcycle clothing and accessories (everything but the bike) and is run by her husband.

Sandy was awarded the “Outstanding CSR of the Year” award in 2006 by the Alabama Independent Insurance Agents Association and The National Alliance/Societies of CIC & CISR in Austin, Texas. She is an instructor for property and casualty insurance licensing school and advanced education curriculum of the Society of CISR in Alabama. She is active in both the Alabama State Council and in Region III of NAIW International of which she has been a member for seven years.

In addition to her job, business and family, Sandy also loves to sing - be it with a band, performance track, karaoke, or in the shower - and to act in plays put on by her local community theatre organizations. In 2005, Sandy won a local talent contest with first prize being a recording session in Nashville directed and edited by Doyle Grisham of The Coral Reefers, Jimmy Buffet’s band. Her dream is to someday be a professional singer either in the country or contemporary Christian genre.

Sandy also competed as Mrs. Lauderdale County United States in the Alabama United States pageant in 2005 winning the audience’s “People’s Choice” award, even with only three people in the audience. This was her first foray back into the pageant world since 1986 when she competed in the “Fairest of the Fair” pageant (a Miss America preliminary) and the Miss USA pageant at the age of 18. She had competed in children’s pageants in high school winning first-runner up to Miss Northwest Alabama Lovely Lady at age 15 and winning several awards in Tri-County Dream Angel pageant including Miss Tri-County Dream Angel, Miss Congeniality and Talent winner. Since getting back into pageants in the Mrs. arena in 2005, Sandy has competed in several online/mail-in pageants and won several awards including Elegant Mrs. Elite Beauty USA 2005, Mrs. Alabama Pageant Gal America 2006, Alabama Queen of States 2005 and first runner-up to Queen of States, and Ms. USA Rose Alabama State Queen 2005. She joined PSAPS (Pink Suede and Pearls Society), a breast cancer awareness pageant society, in 2005 and was awarded the title of Mrs. Dixieland PSAPS Princess. She would like to compete for the title of Mrs. America at some point a few years down the road of life and show that physically fit full-figured women can be “our ideal”.

Her platform encompasses a project especially close to her heart, Shriner’s Hospitals for Children. These are 22 orthopedic and burn hospitals in three countries dedicated to children under 18 years of age with birth defects, orthopedic injuries or severe burns who require special treatment. These hospitals are funded completely by donations, grants, endowments and the fund-raising done by the members of Shriner’s International, like her husband, and individuals such as herself. Her hope is to bring more attention to their work and help to bring them into the forefront of recognition and increase donations to help them continue the very special work that they do for children regardless of their parents’ ability to pay. It is toward this end that she dedicates her year as Mrs. Alabama Classic Beauty 2007 and hopes to continue that work as the national Mrs. Classic Beauty 2008.