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Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Kyle Richards and her daughters. |
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Nationally-syndicated radio & TV host Billy Bush and his daughters. |
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BravoTV‘s Bill Horn and Scout Masterson from Extreme Guide to Parenting and their kids with other event attendees. |

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Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Kyle Richards and her daughters. |
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Nationally-syndicated radio & TV host Billy Bush and his daughters. |
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BravoTV‘s Bill Horn and Scout Masterson from Extreme Guide to Parenting and their kids with other event attendees. |
Dawes revealed that although she seemed calm and poised while performing on the world stage, she was battling self-doubt and was a pessimist, but knew how to “fake it til you make it.” Her teammates, fans and family kept her going though inside she was quite a “nervous Ninny,” she said.”It was calming myself, getting at peace, affirmations,” she said of what helped propel her to success when visualization techniques didn’t work.
“I created a motto for myself as a young child. I called it D3: Determination, Dedication, Desire, so I would repeat these affirmations and even scriptures like Phillipians 4:13, ‘through all things God who strengthens me'” Dawes said. “Whenever those moments of doubt or negative thoughts would come in, I would push it out with these words.”
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Since spilling the beans about being pregnant in a big way this past December, Dawes has been more open about her personal life.
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Dawes married The Heights School’s religion teacher and adviser Jeff Thompson last Spring. |
Dawes and a Potomac, Maryland religion teacher Jeff Thompson married 9 days after Dawes joined the Catholic church last year 2013 during the Easter Vigil. Dawes was born Baptist but joined the faith of her late paternal grandmother who was a Piscataway tribe member, she told Arroyo.
My hubby and I are super excited to watch the @gabrielledoug story tonight on lifetime!!!!!
— Dominique Dawes (@dominiquedawes) February 4, 2014
Personal note: I’m thinking Dawes is my sister from another mother (and father). We both converted to Catholicism late in life within a year of becoming a mother for the first time, as an adult after marrying Catholic men. We both went to the University of Maryland at College Park. We both have a Type-A personality, are both 5 foot 3 inches tall but married men who are 6 feet 3 and both are entrepreneurial business women. Twinsies! 🙂 I just need to go get an Olympic medal and the circle would be complete! LOL!