From the stage to the street
Ex-beauty queen’s illness, struggle with alcohol lead to homelessness
By Cathy Frye
Bunnie Holbert was crowned Miss Arkansas in 1977. Today, she is living at a homeless shelter.
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In September 1977, a petite, glossy-haired Bunnie Holbert glided across the stage at the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City.
Bunnie Holbert, then and now
Bunny Holbert was crowned Miss Arkansas in the summer of 1977. Since then, her life has been a series of ups and downs. In 2007, she lived at Our House homeless shelter and kept two jobs. Now she has created a new path for herself as a student on full scholarship at Lee's School of Cosmetology and an Estee Lauder cosmetic consultant at Dillard's.
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She wore a cranberry-red jersey dress that flowed to the floor and matching peau de sois shoes for each night’s opening number. In the talent competition, she sang “Feelings” — the same piece she had performed in the Miss Arkansas Pageant just a few months earlier. For the evening gown contest, she donned a white, jeweled crepe-chiffon dress.
For more information see today's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
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This article was published April 1, 2007 at 6:00 a.m.
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