"Beauty - Inside & Out" - Brenda Sharman
03.15.08 | 8:30am-12:00pm
Justin's Grill, East Syracuse, NY
Brenda Sharman has been working as one of the
Southeast's busiest professional models and commercial
actresses for the last 19 years.

In 1990, Brenda was crowned Miss Georgia USA after winning the first pageant she ever entered. She went on to finish among the top six in the 1990 Miss USA Pageant and from there was sent to represent the United States in the international "MIss Flower Queen Pageant" held in Osaka Japan. Brenda competed against women from 36 countries from around the world and won!

Today, Brenda especially enjoys working with her husband, Steve, who has also been one of the South's busiest models for the last 25 years. They have two young sons who have joined the family business and enjoy working with Mom and Dad in print advertisements as well as modeling in Fashion Shows.

After growing up in an Agnostic family, Brenda’s search for God began in 1995 during her pregnancy with her first son, Stephen. Through the miracle and gift of becoming a mother, she felt a growing need to discover “Who is God? And, Where can I find Him?” Brenda realized her new responsibility as a mother to answer big questions like, “Where did I come from?” and she knew she had some studying to do! While reading about various world religions, Brenda also began to read the Bible and learn the differences between the Christian Churches she once assumed were the same. After discovering the roots of Christianity and realizing the coherence of the Church Fathers with the modern
Catholic Church, she knew that the Catholic Church was certainly the Church that Christ founded, and the one to which Christ was calling her. At the Easter Vigil in April of 1999 Brenda’s life was forever changed after receiving the Sacraments of Baptism, Holy Communion and Confirmation. “I immediately felt like a different person,” recalls Brenda. “I could definitely relate to 2 Corinthians 5:17 which says, ‘If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away and the new has come’.”

One of the areas of Brenda’s life that was deeply impacted by the realization that she had been called to be a “Woman of God”, was in the area of deciding what she would, or would not, model anymore. She no longer felt comfortable having a photograph of herself wearing undergarments in the Sunday newspaper although she had been modeling lingerie for most of her career. “I realized that
our culture had grown increasingly more immodest, and indecent, and I had to decide if I was going to be part of the problem or part of the solution”, said Brenda. “I also realized that out of Christian charity, I should never knowingly or willingly lead another person into an occasion of sin by the way I look, act, dress or speak. My new measuring stick became, ‘Never do anything at work that I wouldn’t want shown to my entire Parish on a Sunday morning!’ “

At home in Atlanta, you will find Brenda teaching adult education classes,
teaching PSR (CCD) in her local Parish and serving as the National Director for Pure Fashion, the countries fastest growing character formation program for teen girls! Her insight into the world of fashion and advertising has helped to establish the Pure Fashion program as a fun and effective program which helps young women realize their inherent dignity and cultivates in them a desire to live, act and dress in accordance with that dignity. With Pure Fashion focusing on young women dressing modestly and protecting their purity, Brenda truly believes that through Pure Fashion, we really can change our culture.... one outfit at a time! This rapidly growing teen program is quickly becoming the answer to many mother's prayers about helping young women reconcile the influential world of fashion with their faith in Jesus Christ.

For more information on Pure Fashion, go to www.purefashion.com

Join us for an unforgettable morning with professional model and former
Miss Georgia USA, Brenda Sharman, as she unveils God's beauty tips
through, "Beauty - Inside & Out"!

Through Brenda’s talk you’ll learn:
*Where do we find God's beauty tips
*Looking beautiful in God's eyes
*Debunking modern thought that a young woman's goal in
life should be to look hot and sexy!
*How to combine your faith with fashion
*Recognizing what makes a real "Supermodel"
*How to look pretty without looking provocative
*God's "7 Beauty Tips"

Be inspired by Brenda’s conversion testimony while enjoying her
humorous and insightful reflections on the beauty and fashion industry!

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