Dr. Forbes Riley

So I'm standing in the hospital with my mom, and she turns to me one day and said, kiddo, we have no money for college.

That's the only dream I really could tangibly imagine.

And she said, but there's a beauty pageant happening.

The Miss Teenage America pageant is coming to town, and they're offering a full scholarship to college.

And she looked at my face and said, that's not going to work for us.

Now, see, I was butt ugly.

And when you see the photo, and I'm sorry that I don't have it to show you, that's protecting, because I was.

The weird thing about that moment, and it's the first time it changed my life, is that my dad's doctor overheard her say that.

And he said, I'm going to fix your daughter's nose for free.

I'm going to show you a picture, a before and after picture, like literally a week later.

I looked really cute.

Apparently having a cute little nose made my eyes bigger, cut off all my hair, lost a couple of pounds.

I wasn't eating that week.

And I said, I'm going to enter this pageant, which I hated the idea of pageants.

And one of these girls is going to be on NBC with Bob Hope, and it's going to be me.

There were 500 girls initially.

Well, on the flip side of this, I can tell you how I empowered my daughter, who's now a TEDx speaker.

Oh, my God.

You know what?

A couple of ways.