About the author
Chelsea Morgensen has been involved in pageantry for ten years. She won Miss Laredo Teen 2009 at fourteen, her very first pageant. She then went on to win Miss Texas Teen USA 2010 that same year and is the youngest woman to hold the Miss Texas Teen USA title thus far! Chelsea won The People's Choice Award at all three pageants she competed at as a teen, including Miss Laredo Teen, Miss Texas Teen USA, and Miss Teen USA! A decade after competing as a teen she was crowned Miss Laredo Texas 2019 and later placed in the top three in swimsuit, top three in photogenic, and top five overall at the Miss Texas USA 2020 pageant. After pursuing a career as a model and actress and traveling to New York, China, Australia, New Zealand, and Los Angeles, she decided to return home and is now a nursing student at Laredo College. She is working toward achieving a Master's degree and having a career as a nurse practitioner. She is also a pageant coach and founded Crowning Glory in 2018, and she has had many local winners as well as one state winner. She also has her own organization called "The Thumper Project," which aims to spread the message of how important it is to be kind, have respect for one another, have hope, and live with an optimistic outlook on life.