Mother and daughter beauty queens from Salford compete top pageants
A mother and daughter team are toasting their incredible success at one of the world's top beauty pageants.
Sarah Louise Pritchard, 41, and Ella Ravenscroft, 18, were crowned Mrs Galaxy UK and Miss Teen Galaxy England earlier this year after entering the competition together for the first time.
Their win secured them a place at the 2017 Galaxy International pageant in Orlando, Florida, where they joined dozens of other beauty queens from across the world in the race for the global crown.
Sarah Louise Pritchard, 41, and Ella Ravenscroft, 18, were crowned Mrs Galaxy UK and Miss Teen Galaxy England earlier this year after entering the competition together for the first time
Sarah (far left, pictured with Ella), who runs her own beauty salon, wowed judges who placed her first in every stage of competition
Sarah (pictured right with Ella) who is a size 16, was the first plus-sized contestant to scoop the international crown and hopes it sends a message to all women
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The pair, from Salford, flew out to the States last week as part of an 11-strong 'Team UK' which was made up of winners from national competitions.
Sarah, who runs her own beauty salon, wowed judges who placed her first in every stage of competition, which saw her bag the title of Mrs Galaxy International 2017.
Ella was named fourth runner-up in the Miss Teen Galaxy competition.
Sarah, who is a size 16, was the first plus-sized contestant to scoop the international crown and hopes it sends a message to women that you don't have to be skinny to be attractive.
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ShareShe said: 'Me and my husband Martin have six children between us, four of them girls, and I was constantly hearing them go on about their weight and how they looked.
'I realised that me dieting all the time and trying to lose weight wasn't sending them the right message, they are all so beautiful and I wanted to show them this.
'I decided on a whim to enter the competition and the next day I thought, "God, what have I done!"'
Sarah Louise Pritchard, 41, with Ms Galaxy winner at the beauty pageant in Orlando
Ella, from Salford, was named fourth runnerup in the Miss Teen Galaxy competition
'It was really frightening the first time for Mrs Galaxy UK, I cried to my husband the night before, but when I got up there and did it and won I was so proud of myself.'
Sarah thought she would struggle up against women who were size 8-10 in a bikini shoot but went on to score highly with the judges.
She added: 'I won every category and was so humbled that a bigger and curvier girl had achieved this, I thought it was brilliant that it was accepted you don't have to be the stereotypical beauty queen.'
Despite missing out on the top prize, Ella, who was snapped up last year by Manchester's Nemesis modelling agency and works with her mother, is set to fly back to the States in November to train with top beauticians.
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