A Brooklyn beauty contestant is returning to the pageant world as the first Black American Muslim contestant in the Miss New York USA 2025 competition and the first to compete in full modest attire.
MonaLesa Diamond Brackett, 36, founder of The Real Estate Fairy, was born and raised in Bedford-Stuyvesant, and now resides in Clinton Hill. After competing in multiple state-level beauty pageants in her teens and twenties, she placed fourth runner-up in Miss DC America Pageant 2013.
Brackett’s story is deeply personal: She said she decided to step away from pageants due to financial strain and to prioritize her family…