The newly crowned winner and scientist says she didn’t want to compete until the pageant dropped the swimsuit portion
Schrier, a scientist from Virginia, has past experience with an eating disorder, and “chose not to compete until [the swimsuit portion] was gone,” she tells PEOPLE just hours after her win.
“I think that a lot of women in our world really struggle with body image and have had things that might qualify as an eating disorder and they might not even recognize it. And as someone who has struggled with body image and body positivity throughout my life, I didn’t ever want to put myself in a situation to be judged on my body,” she says.RELATED:host Gretchen Carlson, agreed to scrap the swimsuit portion last summer to focus more on empowering the young women who compete each year.
“I think that being able to focus more on what I have to offer with my confidence and my public speaking and my intelligence is a lot more meaningful to me, and something that I wanted to focus on,” she says. “And so I just chose not to compete until that was gone.”Schrier officially won the crown on Thursday night, earning more than $300,000 in scholarship money, and will spend a year representing the organization.
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