Loribelle Spirovski

She's smart.

Yeah.

I think we should give it a try.

And kudos to my mum.

She went in with the purest intentions and just, she wasn't a pageant mum in the way that we look at sort of American versions of child beauty pageants.

So even when I look at photographs of myself back then, I looked like a child.

You know, I looked like a child in a little dress, as opposed to some of the other, especially wealthier contestants.

who kind of were really dolled up in that very extravagant makeup and hair.

And like you could tell I had less money than them because my hair wasn't done and my dress, you could see my feet.

Like it wasn't long enough to cover my feet.

Yes.

And I have such clear memories of her teaching me this song that I was going to perform with like the hand movements and everything.

So like I would have a hairbrush for a microphone and she would model for me how I was going to hold my hands and like look up and like look down and all this stuff.

Well, of course she had all that experience, I guess.

Exactly.

So totally built in.

And I remember she introduced it as a sort of game.

Like she didn't even tell me what it was for.

She's like, let's just try this thing.

You know, I'm going to do this.