Christie-Lee Sinclair. (submitted photo/Christie-Lee Sinclair)

By Nicole Reis

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Battlefords woman strikes a pose to give back

Feb 24, 2020 | 4:53 PM

A local woman is competing in a modelling competition to give back to a community who supported her throughout her young life.

Christie-Lee Sinclair, 30-year-old mother of two, was born and raised in North Battleford. She said posing in front of a camera gave her the self-confidence she didn’t know she had.

“Years ago, I weighed over 200 pounds after I had kids. I worked really hard over the course of a couple of years to lose weight,” she told meadowlakeNOW. “I decided I was going to do a confidence-boosting boudoir shoot and that kind of got the ball rolling.”

With a little encouragement from friends, Sinclair submitted an application to participate in a U.S. publication cover model search. She said her goal isn’t to be a magazine cover girl, but to use the $50,000 cash prize to give back to the province.

“It’s been a lot of support so far and in order to advance further, I need Saskatchewan’s support so I can give back to our province,” she said. “It’s not about me, I never went into it for me. I’ve always wanted to do something to give back to our community.”

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When Sinclair was growing up, she was raised by a single parent who struggled to make ends meet. She recalls a time in high school when she couldn’t afford food or essential items. A fellow student from John Paul II Collegiate reported her challenges to school staff.

Students pitched in to provide her with a food hamper and cash donations so she could fill her car with gas to get to school.

“It was a very humbling moment, so I really want to give back to families who may need a little extra help,” she said. “The people who need help the most don’t usually say it.”

Now working with special-needs children and having an undiagnosed special-needs child of her own, Sinclair understands costs and support needed for local families to cope.

“I’ve come from nothing. I moved away from North Battleford when I met my husband. We have two kids and a good home,” she said. “We don’t financially struggle so this is the first time in my whole life where I’ve broken that cycle.”

According to Sinclair’s contest biography, if she wins the competition, she plans to donate $5,000 to both the United Way in Estevan and Battlefords, $10,000 to The Kinsmen Tele-miracle, and $5,000 to Royal University Hospital Foundation for a total of $25,000.

Christie-Lee Sinclair has made it to the semifinal round in the competition. You can submit a vote for her here to continue on to the final phase.

The competition runs until March 12.

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nicole.reis@jpbg.ca

Twitter: @nicolereis7722