I beamed from the stage, a giant bouquet of flowers in my arms and a sparkly crown on my head.
It was 1999 and at 18, I'd won the regional final for Miss Junior America.
What would the bullies at school think now? I thought.
‘The girl with the elephant leg,’ they'd called me.
Stuff them. Now I was a pageant queen!
After years of feeling like a freak, I was having the last laugh.
I'd been born with myof my left.