When you're a beauty queen, you are out and about, interacting with all kinds of people. Some of them like pageant people and some don't, but you have to try to make them all like you. Show business is like that, too. Even TV anchors have the same challenge. You have to make each viewer feel like a friend.
Some women specialize, sticking to certain types of pageants.
There are the Miss America girls, the Miss USA girls, the swimsuit girls, etc. Some women do all kinds of contests. The feeling is out there that you may be alienating certain people who look down on certain pageants, but women shouldn't be intimidated by that. It's all about finding out what you can do well. I went through stages when I was more nervous.