Isabelle St. Cyr competed with HudsonFox NewsBy Ryan GaydosMay 13, 2025Isabelle St. Cyr, a transgender beauty pageant competitor who competed in Miss Maine USA over the weekend, opened up about an interaction with Jordon Hudson behind the scenes.Hudson was the second runner-up in the pageant amid a tumultuous few weeks that started when she shut down a question for her boyfriend Bill Belichick about how the two met. The interruption was during Belichick’s CBS interview about his new book in which he described Hudson as his "creative muse."[...]Hudson appeared to have a message for critics during the event. She was asked how she was doing before launching into her answer."I’m feeling an immense amount of pride right now," she said via Mass Live. "I hope anyone who’s watching this finds the strength to push through whatever it is that they’re going through and embodies that hate never wins."
I think we all have pride in what she did!
News Center Maine wrote,
Former New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick’s girlfriend, Jordan Hudson, entered the competition and finished in third place. Meanwhile, Isabelle Saint Cyr broke new ground as Maine's first-ever transgender contestant to compete at Miss Maine USA. Saint Cyr impressed judges and supporters alike, making it into the final 10. She was later eliminated before the final 5.
People magazine said she made a friend at the pageant...
Isabelle St. Cyr tells PEOPLE that she and Hudson offered each other advice behind the scenes of the pageantBy Zoey LyttleMay 12, 2025This weekend, some of the country's largest media outlets flocked to a Holiday Inn in Portland, Maine to see an unusually high-profile state-wide pageant.This year's Miss Maine USA stage featured two particularly notable competitors: Bill Belichick's girlfriend, Jordon Hudson, and the first-ever transgender Miss Maine contestant, Isabelle St. Cyr. Even before the pageant took place. The two women, both 24, found themselves at the center of a media frenzy that ranged in tone.Hudson and St. Cyr took the brunt of backlash and criticism from the moments they individually announced their participation until the second they stepped out in front of the pageant audience. They took the stage with style, strutting in swimwear and evening gowns for a room full of pageant-goers, reporters and their own supporters, like Belichick, 73, who watched his girlfriend from a front-row seat.[...]"We had a conversation backstage and we were like, 'You know, the media hasn't necessarily been kind to us.' We just kind of talked about how we've dealt with it, how to move forward, how to remain positive and when to comment and not to comment," St. Cyr tells PEOPLE. "I really appreciate her willingness to talk to me about the media coverage."St. Cyr — who represented the town of Monson — notes that they hadn't actually interacted before the pageant, but she says there was an "unspoken" question of how she and Hudson were going address the headlines. And some of the harsher angles pitted the women against each other: "First trans woman versus Jordon Hudson, all those articles," St. Cyr recalls.
Kind of reminds me of the song Dirty Laundry where the lyrics are "Is the head dead yet?"
She wasn't a piranha and isolated, she made friends at the pageant contrary to the wishes of some of the media.
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