For winning the glamour competition Anna received a free portfolio of professional modeling photographs.

'A girl would be acting kind of rudely and then I’d find out she was in the same age division as me,' Anna said. And even though most girls she met were laid-back and not especially competitive, sometimes she felt some competitive friction. Out of around 400 girls, Anna was named second runner-up and qualified to go to nationals, held in mid-December 2001.Īnna said she made some fast friends at the week-long pageant, including Guinevere Burner, a Madison sophomore who roomed with Anna in Orlando. She custom-made the four competition dresses to fit her daughter’s proportions.Īnna had never been in a pageant before, and found out about the competition when a letter came in the mail, inviting her to a Northern Virginia qualifying pageant. Luckily Anna’s mother, Mila Abramova, was a designer at Vienna’s White Swan Bridal shop. She did her own make up and I helped her a little.' A lot of the other girls had experience or professional helpers, like make-up artists or hair stylists. 'There were hundreds of girls from all over the country.

'I didn’t expect her to win,' said Ettenger. When the pageant results were announced Anna said her sister was crying more than Anna herself was. As she looked into the crowd, Anna saw her sister, Vera Ettenger, who came with Anna to Orlando for the mid-December 2001 pageant. As she waited for the results to be announced, she told herself she wouldn’t mind if she didn’t place because she had already won the glamour competition.īut she came in second for the overall crown of Miss Teen 2001.

Later, when overall pageant winners were being named, Anna was in the running again. junior miss pageant 2001

'The only reason I signed up was because I thought I was checking something else,' the Madison High School junior said.Īnna didn’t think she had a shot in the glamour category, but she was wrong: she ended up coming in first, winning the title of Miss Teen Glamour 2001. When Anna Abramova was filling out forms for last year’s Miss Cities of America 2001 pageant she accidentally signed up for the glamour competition, in which contestants were judged solely on facial beauty.

Junior miss pageant 2001