Wicked Fit's Monica Pietrzak | yohana
Wicked Fit marketing guru Monica Pietrzak chatted with mystyle about working with friend and former trainer Katie Boyd, fighting with co-star Monique Jones and what it was like as a newcomer on the pageant circuit.
KATIE'S BFF: She and I are both intense people. I knew by the way that she introduced herself that we were going to be very close friends. The best memory I have is when she called me up and said, "I bought this building, and I'm sitting here in my pajamas wallpapering so I can make this a gym.' Katie, my mom and myself [wound up] wallpapering and painting the entire gym by hand for hours. We just looked at each other like, ‘We are nuts. How do we know this is even going to work?" But if you don't take a risk, you'll never know. We were in it to win it together.
BATTLING MONIQUE: We've gone through a growth process. In the beginning, there were conflicting opinions, but we came to the realization that we're trying to accomplish the same goal, which is to make this work for Katie and all of us. Now we do respect each other's opinions, although they are very different—Monique has extreme ideas, and I'm a little bit more conservative. We've developed a way to work together.
TRANSLATING MARKUS: He's the younger brother because he tries to be very poetic and Freudian with us. He tries to give us relationship advice, but it's always very ambiguous, like ‘If the tree falls in the relationship woods, has anybody heard it?' He's a doll, very heartfelt and sincere. We have a really good relationship.
BACK TO REALITY: My prerogative with Katie was trying to get her brand established in Boston, and she's done a great job with it—she's been very cooperative, and we're very proud of her. But working with her as a friend? Her ideas are as follows: "Let's do a gym where we have chandeliers, feathers, crystals and sparkles. I want pink treadmills and lollipops." She has really creative ideas that I love, but I have to tailor it to what's realistic and going to work in the market. It's a relationship that we don't fight but laugh about.
MATCHMAKER, MATCHMAKER: When you have a strong girl, it takes an equally strong guy to deal with that, if not even stronger. So Matt was the perfect candidate—he's strong and established. He can dish it and take it. I knew that he would calm Katie down. It can be tough! She gets really riled up and has a lot of energy, but he actually deflects that a lot. They're both each other's biggest fans.
SHAPE SHIFTER: When I won Miss Connecticut USA 2009, Katie became my trainer because you win a package with a team of people who start preparing you for the journey to Miss USA. We spoke on the phone and went over the diet plan. She was pretty outrageous in terms of giving me a hard time about what I ate! I told her that I was eating M&M's, Skittles and mocha lattes—I was a hair away from a diabetic coma. She basically told me I needed to shape up or that's it. Seven million people are going to be watching you on stage in a bathing suit! That was enough incentive for me.
LATE BLOOMER: I never did pageants growing up. I jumped into it randomly because someone dared me, so I started at 25. I never back down from a challenge! When I started telling people that I was doing the pageant, they were like, "Pageant girls are stupid and flaky," or, "They're very rehearsed." I'm a business person through-and-through, so my prerogative was to change that perception. I truly feel I did that throughout my year. I opened a lot of doors to professionals who are now becoming involved, especially in New England. It's good to start a new wave of pageant girls.
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KATIE'S BFF: She and I are both intense people. I knew by the way that she introduced herself that we were going to be very close friends. The best memory I have is when she called me up and said, "I bought this building, and I'm sitting here in my pajamas wallpapering so I can make this a gym.' Katie, my mom and myself [wound up] wallpapering and painting the entire gym by hand for hours. We just looked at each other like, ‘We are nuts. How do we know this is even going to work?" But if you don't take a risk, you'll never know. We were in it to win it together.
BATTLING MONIQUE: We've gone through a growth process. In the beginning, there were conflicting opinions, but we came to the realization that we're trying to accomplish the same goal, which is to make this work for Katie and all of us. Now we do respect each other's opinions, although they are very different—Monique has extreme ideas, and I'm a little bit more conservative. We've developed a way to work together.
TRANSLATING MARKUS: He's the younger brother because he tries to be very poetic and Freudian with us. He tries to give us relationship advice, but it's always very ambiguous, like ‘If the tree falls in the relationship woods, has anybody heard it?' He's a doll, very heartfelt and sincere. We have a really good relationship.
BACK TO REALITY: My prerogative with Katie was trying to get her brand established in Boston, and she's done a great job with it—she's been very cooperative, and we're very proud of her. But working with her as a friend? Her ideas are as follows: "Let's do a gym where we have chandeliers, feathers, crystals and sparkles. I want pink treadmills and lollipops." She has really creative ideas that I love, but I have to tailor it to what's realistic and going to work in the market. It's a relationship that we don't fight but laugh about.
MATCHMAKER, MATCHMAKER: When you have a strong girl, it takes an equally strong guy to deal with that, if not even stronger. So Matt was the perfect candidate—he's strong and established. He can dish it and take it. I knew that he would calm Katie down. It can be tough! She gets really riled up and has a lot of energy, but he actually deflects that a lot. They're both each other's biggest fans.
SHAPE SHIFTER: When I won Miss Connecticut USA 2009, Katie became my trainer because you win a package with a team of people who start preparing you for the journey to Miss USA. We spoke on the phone and went over the diet plan. She was pretty outrageous in terms of giving me a hard time about what I ate! I told her that I was eating M&M's, Skittles and mocha lattes—I was a hair away from a diabetic coma. She basically told me I needed to shape up or that's it. Seven million people are going to be watching you on stage in a bathing suit! That was enough incentive for me.
LATE BLOOMER: I never did pageants growing up. I jumped into it randomly because someone dared me, so I started at 25. I never back down from a challenge! When I started telling people that I was doing the pageant, they were like, "Pageant girls are stupid and flaky," or, "They're very rehearsed." I'm a business person through-and-through, so my prerogative was to change that perception. I truly feel I did that throughout my year. I opened a lot of doors to professionals who are now becoming involved, especially in New England. It's good to start a new wave of pageant girls.
fashionsandmode.blogspot.com
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