✨Little girls with dreams become women with vision ✨ “I kind of laughed at these stupid pageants. But my friends at school dared me to do it, and my military training came in handy for learning to balance books on my head for the catwalk… I had big dreams.”  ~ #Rihanna In 2004, badgalriri was crowned Miss Combermere in Barbados—one year before Pon de Replay would launch her career into the stratosphere. Despite laughing at the idea of pageants, her friends dared her to enter, and her military training (yes, Rihanna was an army cadet!) helped her nail the catwalk with books balanced on her head. Rih’s talent for performing shined through when she sang Hero by Mariah Carey during the talent portion, proving even then that big dreams were on the horizon. And here’s a fun fact: Rihanna was also an army cadet at just 11 years old in Barbados’s Cadet Corps, where none other than shonny246 was her drill sergeant! ☁️ #LittleGirlzBigDreamz ☁️ ✨#FemmeItForward ✨