KEPT WOMEN by LESLIE MCRAY with TED SCHWARZ

EXCERPT

Leslie McRay "For the first time there was a change in what was taking place in my life. As a beauty contestant, I found people looking at me differently... All I knew was that suddenly I was receiving special attention, attention that both embarrassed and delighted me... I was crowned Miss Fullerton, the first of more than seventy contest I won. It was also the first major step toward becoming a kept woman... I had no identity, no self esteem. It was the 1960's, the end of an era for beauty contestants... That first beauty contest radically changed my life. The contests were still considered legitimate ways to break into modeling and show business careers..." page 65 of her book