Meet our Team

Brenda Sharman grew up in the fashion industry after beginning her modeling and acting career in high school. She worked as a professional model and actress for more than 25 years and has appeared in numerous catalogs, videos, magazines, fashion shows, t.v. commercials and ad campaigns for clients from coast to coast. In 1990, Brenda was crowned Miss Georgia USA after winning the first pageant she ever entered. She went on to finish among the top six in the 1990 Miss USA Pageant and from there was sent to represent the United States in the international "Miss Flower Queen Pageant" held in Osaka Japan. Brenda competed as “Miss United States”, against women from 36 countries from around the world and won! In 1991 Brenda married her husband Steve who was also a professional model and they enjoyed many years of working together as a “model couple”. After growing up in an Agnostic family, Brenda’s search for God began in 1995 during her pregnancy with her first son, Stephen. Through the miracle and gift of becoming a mother, she felt a growing need to discover “Who is God and where can I find Him?” Her life was forever changed when she gave her life to Christ and joined the Catholic Church at the Easter Vigil in 1999. “I immediately felt like a different person,” recalls Brenda. “I could definitely relate to 2 Corinthians 5:17 which says, ‘If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away and the new has come.” Brenda also realized that, “Our culture had grown increasingly more immodest, and indecent, and I had to decide if I was going to be part of the problem or part of the solution”, said Brenda. She began looking at the entertainment and fashion industry through the eyes of Christ and could see that the world of fashion and advertising had become increasingly more sexualized and immodest. She edited her photographs, her wardrobe and set new boundaries for what she would or would not wear, or do in her career. She also realized that young women were being influenced by pop stars, music videos and magazines and the images and behaviors they were seeing in the media. Brenda knew that the influence was often not a positive or healthy one. In 2006 Brenda became the founding National Director of Pure Fashion and was featured in media outlets such as The Dr. Phil show, ABC’s Nightline, Life on the Rock, USA Today, Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal, Marie Claire magazine, and countless other newspaper and radio interviews. Her insight into the world of fashion and advertising helped the Pure Fashion program grow into an effective program which helped young women realize their inherent dignity and cultivate in them a desire to live, act and dress in accordance with that dignity. After taking a break from Pure Fashion and focusing on raising her three sons, Brenda is back to help a new generation of teen girls facing the pressures of our modern era. With the rising popularity of the selfie culture, Brenda recognizes that young ladies are growing up becoming obsessed with their looks and how many “followers” they have…. instead of focusing on how they are following Jesus Christ. “My hope is that through theTrue Beauty program, young ladies will learn to feel confident about who they are, how they present themselves and who they are in the eyes of Christ. A person’s TRUE beauty flows from their heart and how they love and serve others. When a young lady recognizes her God given dignity, she will have a desire to live (and dress) with decency and discretion and this is pleasing to our Lord. In a world with so many “influencers” and “followers”, we are reminding young ladies that first and foremost they should be followers of Christ and that God’s word should have the greatest influence on their life. “Charm is deceitful and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.” Proverbs 31:30