{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Socamom","provider_url":"https:\/\/socamom.com\/w","author_name":"Eva Wilson","author_url":"https:\/\/socamom.com\/w\/author\/socasoca\/","title":"Wendy Fitzwilliam Reflects on 10 Years of Motherhood - Socamom","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"kSV0Xf4JEp\"><a href=\"https:\/\/socamom.com\/w\/wendy-fitzwilliam-reflects-on-10-years-of-motherhood\/\">Wendy Fitzwilliam Reflects on 10 Years of Motherhood<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/socamom.com\/w\/wendy-fitzwilliam-reflects-on-10-years-of-motherhood\/embed\/#?secret=kSV0Xf4JEp\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Wendy Fitzwilliam Reflects on 10 Years of Motherhood&#8221; &#8212; Socamom\" data-secret=\"kSV0Xf4JEp\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! This file is auto-generated *\/\n!function(d,l){\"use strict\";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&\"undefined\"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!\/[^a-zA-Z0-9]\/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),c=new RegExp(\"^https?:$\",\"i\"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display=\"none\";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute(\"style\"),\"height\"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):\"link\"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute(\"src\")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener(\"message\",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll(\"iframe.wp-embedded-content\"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute(\"data-secret\"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+=\"#?secret=\"+t,e.setAttribute(\"data-secret\",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:\"ready\",secret:t},\"*\")},!1)))}(window,document);\n\/\/# sourceURL=https:\/\/socamom.com\/w\/wp-includes\/js\/wp-embed.min.js\n<\/script>\n","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/socamom.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/wfw_0_socamom_small.jpg","thumbnail_width":400,"thumbnail_height":435,"description":"On May 12, 1998, everyone who had a drop of Trinidadian or Tobagonian blood, or knew someone from Trinidad and Tobago, was cheering as the American Miss Universe 1997 crowned Miss Universe 1998, Trinidadian beauty, Wendy Fitzwilliam.\u00a0 If you were Trini and missed the broadcast, you got a call. To say that this was a big deal in the Caribbean community would be quite the understatement. I had graduated a year earlier, and had participated in a couple of pageants while I was in college.Her win was one of those moments that makes a pageant girl take her best heels off of the top shelf of the closet and practice her most graceful pageant wave. Even if being Miss Universe was just a passing thought, by the time next Miss Universe Pageant aired \u00a0in 1999, I was about six weeks away from becoming a single mother.\u00a0 I wasn\u2019t about to be anyone\u2019s \u201cMiss\u201d anything \u2013 but becoming a queen was the last thing on my mind. I was going to be someone\u2019s mom. A few years ago, I read Wendy Fitzwilliam\u2019s first book, Letters to Ailan.\u00a0 By then, I had gone from being a single mother of one, to a married mother of three. I hadn\u2019t thought about my time as a single mom for a while, and her honesty, transparency and candor in her book inspired me to reflect on that period in my life."}