| Brenda Sharman |
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"Miss Georgia / Pure Fashion"Travels from: Atlanta, GA Her story inspires and teaches the power of God and human greatness within us all. Her genuine and unique experiences push any audience to want to become better individuals, and most of all, better Catholics.
Brenda Sharman has been working as one of the Southeast's busiest professional models and commercial actresses for the last 19 years. She has appeared in numerous catalogs, magazines, fashion shows and ad campaigns for clients such as Marriott, MGM Grand, Sandals Resorts, PGA Golf, Steinmart and Elixsure cough medicine. She can also be found hosting industrial videos and appearing in numerous television commercials for clients from coast to coast.
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. Their work as a
"model couple" has taken them to exciting locations like
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 He be found? As a new mother, Brenda realized her responsibilities to properly nurture her children included answering big questions like, "Where did we come from." At that moment, she realized the vital search she needed to undertake to learn answers to her questions. Saying that she had "some studying to do" would have been a gross understatement. She studied hard and while researching various world religions, Brenda began to read the Bible and the differences between Christianity and Catholicism, which she always felt were basically the same thing. After delving deeply into the roots of both Catholicism and Christianity and realizing the coherence of the Church Fathers, Brenda could see clearly that the Catholic Church was the true Church founded by God and the one He was calling her to become a part of.
At the Easter Vigil in April of 1999, Brenda's life was forever changed after receiving the Sacraments of Baptism, Holy Communion and Confirmation. She stated she immediately felt like a different person and directly related with 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 specific areas of Brenda's life that was deeply impacted by the realization that she had been called to be a "Woman of God” was her modeling career; her profession and one of the largest parts of her life. The big question was would she or would she not model the way she had for as long as she could remember? 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 country's 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! Please enjoy the slideshows of Atlanta's 2006 PURE FASHION SHOW!
SPEAKER TOPICS Brenda has, and can, lecture on any topic concerning the Catholic faith and what it means to be a Catholic woman. Be inspired by Brenda’s conversion testimony while enjoying her humorous and insightful reflections on the beauty and fashion industry! Topics of expertise are:
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