NAM Nationals, here we come! On her official Facebook page, Milliken has posted several times about the backlash, saying she had been “a little traumatized over reading comments” and had limited social media interactions as a result. But she also described the moment she won the pageant: “A dream 8 years in the making finally became mine. It was a reaction of pure shock. I had played out this moment in my head daily since I was 15. Somehow it was even sweeter than I imagined.” In another post she addressed the backlash at more length: “Recently I have been the target of an overwhelming amount of online hate, negativity, and bullying. Honestly, it doesn’t affect me in the way most would think it does,” she said.
