Miss Texas Recalls Unexpected Question That Surprised Her During First Pageant (Exclusive)
- - Miss Texas Recalls Unexpected Question That Surprised Her During First Pageant (Exclusive)
Tabitha ParentOctober 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Arian Archer Orlando
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After Sadie Schiermeyer won the title of Miss Texas back in June, she and her mother made history, becoming the first mother-daughter duo to have both won the crown
The pageant queen chatted with PEOPLE exclusively about sharing the honor with her mother, as well as the preparation that went into all of her pageant training
She also opens up about her first pageant ever as a teen competitor, sharing one of the unconventional questions she was asked
Back in June, Sadie Schiermeyer and her mother, Arian Orlando, made history after becoming the first mother-daughter duo to both hold the title of Miss Texas — 31 years apart.While the road to this milestone was a long time coming, countless hours of prep go into making sure a pageant queen is ready to make her debut in any scenario — as the mother-daughter duo can attest.Everything from interview prep to hair and makeup factors into the lead-up to a contestant's pageant appearance, but even then, the competition can still catch one off guard.Ahead of the Miss America pageant in September, where Schiermeyer placed first runner-up, the beauty queen, 22, sat down with PEOPLE to chat exclusively about what sharing the Miss Texas title with her mother meant to her, shedding some light on what the behind-the-scenes walk-up to a pageant looks like for her.
Arian Archer Orlando
Sadie Schiermeyer.
“It's funny because some of my first memories were competing,” the pageant queen reveals. “It was the Dallas Park Cities pageant. I actually didn't win that first time I got first runner-up, but I was surprised by how much I enjoyed the process of it all.”She also lists some of the learning curves she had to adjust to when she first began competing in pageants.“I was a teenager, so they go a little more gentle on stage questions,” Schiermeyer remembers.Continuing on, the pageant queen reveals that her first question was "What Harry Potter house would you be in?"“I think that that pageant was very unique,” Schiermeyer laughs. “They asked me a fun question and then they asked me a more serious one. And I wish I could tell you what the more serious one was.”Schiermeyer, a self-proclaimed “huge Harry Potter” nerd, recalls the joy of getting to answer a question that was “really fun to me.”
Arian Archer Orlando
Sadie Schiermeyer and Arian Orlando.
“And I remember getting kind of a chuckle out of the audience,” she says. “But I remember just the magic in that moment of realizing, yes, some people think that pageants are superficial, but I think that I've been able to recognize there's so much power in them.”“Sometimes you connect through talking about why I'm a Hufflepuff, and sometimes you connect by answering some of those more serious questions," she jokes.Schiermeyer’s mother, Orlando, 51, also recalls feeling thrown off by her first pageant. She participated in the very first Miss Teen Texas pageant while in high school, and later went on to participate in the Miss division.
The first year she competed for the Miss Texas title, Orlando says she placed 37th out of 63."I was clueless," Orlando laughs, recalling her first foray into the world of pageantry. "I had no idea what I was doing."But she also remembers the important skills she gained from her first rocky steps into the world of pageantry.
Arian Archer Orlando
Sadie Schiermeyer and Arian Orlando.
"I think the interview skills alone that you learn through this process are invaluable," she says, of the preparation that went into her own pageant life decades earlier. And, the scholarship money alone changed her life, Orlando emphasizes.The same is true for Schiermeyer, who was able to use the money from her Miss Texas win to continue her education in a master's program at Dallas Baptist University.She and her mother's shared experience is only additive to her experience, never taking away or adding negative pressure to the competition.
"They've done a phenomenal job of making sure that while we wanna like highlight the legacy of this organization, because that is so impactful in getting to show the generational impact that this organization has," she says.
on People
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