I didn't even go to my prom. I didn't have one date in high school.
I didn't even go to my prom. I didn't have one date in high school.
I wasn't a cheerleader or the prom queen. I don't move through the world with a mirror in front of my face, and I've never been attracted to projects that had an emphasis on what I look like.
I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom.
I got hate letters from girls all over America because I wouldn't go to the prom with them.
I want to find a way to reach young women emotionally and also to start providing clothing for them so that they can wear the same things their thin friends can wear. I really want to do evening wear and prom dresses for these girls.
We had to decide: Do we want to do Saturday Night or go to our Senior Prom? We opted for Saturday Night Live.
It wasn't that no one asked me to the prom, it was that no one would tell me where it was.
I'd never been to a prom, I had never had the whole high school experience. I think I was kind of an anomaly. I don't think they knew where to put me.
It was nice to make things right, and I went to prom and actually had a good time in the TV world - the real world wasn't so much fun.
One out of forty American men wears women's clothing. We've had more than forty presidents. One of these guys has been dancing around the Oval Office in a prom dress.
I never think of myself as any kind of sex symbol, but I get letters from all over, all sorts. It's really cool. I get a lot from inmates, which is kind of scary. But the best was the guy who wanted to send me a plane ticket to fly me to his prom.
Because homecoming came first, and there was the homecoming court. The five guys on homecoming court were disqualified from being in the prom court. So being prom king was being sixth most popular.
Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.
My friends and I are collecting prom dresses to give to girls who can't afford them for their proms.
I'll take being on Baywatch over being Prom Queen any day.
The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.
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