Getting to know

Miss Southwest

Chelsey Colleen Hankins

 

Hometown: Magee, MS

School: Mississippi School of The Arts

Talent: Vocal - On My Own

Platform: Organ & Tissue Donation

What are your Hobbies?
What makes you special and unique?
What is the best advice you have ever received?
Name one thing you cannot live without.
What is the most valuable lesson you ever learned?
Who is your most valued role model and why?
What was your most unexpected moment?
What is your workout routine?
What has been your biggest accomplishment to date?
What is the best compliment you have ever received?
What is your secret wish?
What was your most embarrassing moment?
What is your biggest guilty pleasure?
What is your favorite movie and why?
What do you like to do for fun... relaxation... recreation?
What would be your dream vacation or destination?
What do you like best about the state of Mississippi?
Where do you see yourself in ten years?
What extracurricular activities do you participate in?
Who am I?
Tell us about your platform.

What are your Hobbies?
Reading, Snow Boarding, Movies, Watching TV, Acting
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What makes you special and unique?
I am unique because I was diagnosed at the age of 13 with a rare heart disease called Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.
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What is the best advice you have ever received?
To find a blessing in everything that happens.
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Name one thing you cannot live without.
My faith in Jesus Christ.
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What's the most valuable lesson you've ever learned?
1st impressions are not always accurate. It is best to get to know someone before making a judgement of their character.
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Who is your most valued role model and why?
My Dad because he has gone through some of the same things I have gone through. He is the strongest man I know and I hope to be like him one day.
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What was your most unexpected moment?
When I won Miss Southwest Outstanding Teen.
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What is your workout routine?
100 Crunches, 50 lunges, walking, and lightweights once a day.
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What has been your biggest accomplishment to date?
Being accepted into the Mississippi School of the Arts.
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What is the best compliment you have ever received?
People respect the fact that I stand by what I believe in and am not afraid of expressing my opinion.
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What is your secret wish?
If I told you it would not be a secret anymore.
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What was your most embarrassing moment?
When my mom walked into our high school pep rally dressed like a "Biker Babe"
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What is your biggest guilty pleasure?
Listening to the Backstreet Boys.
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What is your favorite movie and why?
I have too many to name because I am a movie addict.
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What do you like to do for fun... relaxation... recreation?
GO TO THE MOVIES!! Swim. Read. Snowboard
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What would be your dream vacation or destination?
To go back to Paris.
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What do you like best about the state of Mississippi?
Our Southern Charm and hospitality and the fact that wherever one goes it feels like "home". I also like it's hilly landscape and the pine and oak forests.
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Where do you see yourself in ten years?
In California having an acting career; working toward an Oscar.
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What extracurricular activities do you participate in?
I don't have time for extracurricular activities in view of the fact I go to school until 5pm and then have theater and dance practice until 10:00pm.
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Who am I?
I am a very determined, and independent Christian. I have definite goals in my life and am working hard to achieve them. I do not have a problem expressing my opinion. My dream is to one day be standing on the stage of the Kodak Theater accepting an Oscar. My Christianity is very important to me.

I love hanging out with my friends and acting on the stage. Watching movies is my favorite pastime. I am a self proclaimed movie geek. My philosophy is shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist!! There is much to be said for "Retail Therapy"!
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Tell us about your platform.
My platform is "Organ and Tissue Donation" because I have had three close family members receive heart transplants. They would not be here today if it were not for the generous families that donated their loved ones organs. I have seen first hand the value in organ donation and it is truly the "Gift of Life". So, therefore, I am doing everything I can to dispell the myths of organ and tissue donation and helping people realize how important it is.
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