![]() In 2009, she was training a horse when he started to buck. But the cowgirl was never far from Texas in her heart, and at 20, she returned to the Lone Star State.īut Taylor almost didn’t return to rodeo. She became a model for Axe body spray and appeared in TV shows like Two and a Half Men. Then the opportunity to try her hand at modeling in New York and acting in Los Angeles took her on an entirely different adventure. I get to go down a tunnel and wear sparkly stuff,” Taylor says with a laugh.Īs a teen, she rode out of that tunnel four years in a row. I was just like, ‘Hey, what a cool rodeo. “Going into it I didn’t realize the impact of what it would do to my career just to be a qualifier. At 13, she qualified for her first National Finals Rodeo. They’d never seen me so passionate about anything.”īy the age of 9, she had won her first rodeo. “My parents are like me: We’re kind of a ‘go big or go home’ family, and so they bought me my permit while we were there on vacation,” Taylor says. She was hooked.įor her birthday, Taylor’s parents took her to Texas to watch a rodeo, and they never came home. ![]() Taylor first saw the sport on a televised rodeo as a 7-year-old living in Florida. Here are seven cowgirls who have an extra measure of that special quality we call cowgirl grit.īarrel racer Fallon Taylor is one of the little girls Charmayne James inspired. Rising above the talented competition to really make a name for yourself requires something even more. To be successful at the sport, it takes a special blend of strength, bravery, and drive. ![]() When it’s showtime, they glam it up in crystal-encrusted pearl snap shirts and with hair teased so big it can barely hold a hat.Īnd then it’s back to the road and the stalls and the next event.ĭespite the difficulties, rodeo is a life worth living. ![]() They muck stalls and toss hay at dawn and dusk, and stay up late with sick foals and their own children. They drive gooseneck horse trailers cross-country, sleeping above the truck bed and showering at truck stops. They round the barrels at breakneck speed, flying across the dirt for home in a matter of hoof-pounding seconds. These seven cowgirls have an extra measure of that special quality we call grit. ![]()
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