Inside New York Swim Week & Pageant Secrets with Johnny Triquet!

This week on Just Can’t Help Myself, I sit down with Johnny Triquet (@thejohnnydnyc) to talk about his career in entertainment, pageantry, fashion, and runway production. I met him at New York Swim Week and knew I had to interview him on the pod. Johnny shares how his background as a performer in Nashville and on European cruises that led him to becoming the youngest Miss Tennessee director and co-founding Fit for the Crown. We talk about his role as runway director for Evita Scoccia's New York Swim Week, including backstage quick changes, runway chaos, and helping models feel confident before they walk. With Johnny's psychology background from the University of Virginia, we also talk about grief, therapy, emotional support, and why caregivers need support too. We get into the evolution of beauty standards and pageantry, including married women, mothers, older contestants, male pageants, and Miss America moving away from its traditional swimsuit competition. We also talk about Triquet’s experience behind the scenes of the fashion and pageant world and what it takes to experience behind the scenes of the fashion and pageant world and what it takes to make performers and models feel empowered. And, of course, we get into Botox, Daxxify, Xeomin, Jeuveau, and whether we’re brave enough to try a CO2 laser together. New episodes of Just Can’t Help Myself drop every Thursday!