A Beauty Queen’s Journey to Overcoming the Scars of Life
Description of book
Bárbara Palacios—Miss. Universe 1986, Miss. Venezuela, one of People en Español’s 25 most powerful and influential women of 2014, author and international lecturer—opens her heart by sharing memories and personal testimonies from her international career as a public figure. According to Palacios, women all around the world want to know how they can be good mothers, good friends, good wives, excellent professionals, and women of faith. In this book, she uses stories from her own life to address these subjects, as well as other subjects such as domestic violence, failure, abortion, and leadership. Palacios believes women can and should dare to be bold, courageous, and willing to defend their values, principles, ethics, and virtues. She urges women to Dare to discover and be yourself, according to your original design by God and says I am Barbara, but you are who you are, and so you are perfect.