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3 THINGS
BY MIKE KLINGAMAN Harford Magazine
Megan Myers
Mrs. Maryland
PHOTO BY BARBARA HADDOCK TAYLOR
When a friend won the Mrs. Maryland pageant last year, Megan Myers decided that she would enter, too.
In April, the 34-year-old Bel Air resident followed suit, earning the title that Harford County’s Julia Chang
took in 2021.
“Julia was an inspiration,” said Myers who, as Mrs. Maryland, will spend the year promoting her favorite
cause: an advocacy for blended families (like her own) and the success of co-parenting relationships.
“To be a stepparent is hard,” she said. “We talk a lot about divorce and the trauma it entails, but nobody
talks about what happens afterward. Society has deemed that if you share your struggles, you’re not putting
in the effort — and that’s 100% not true. There aren’t enough resources to reach out. My goal is to establish a
nonprofit and a place where people feel comfortable to talk freely, so that others can help.”
Here are three things you might not know about Myers:
She and her husband,
Brent, have seven children.
“People say, ‘How on earth do
you do it?’ I say, ‘One day at a
time.’ Sometimes when we go out
to eat it’s difficult to find a place
that will fit nine people. Bedtime
is the most chaotic, when
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everyone is thirsty, like they’ve
been running through the desert
for three days, or they forgot to
floss, or to give us a hug. Then
there’s 20 minutes of saying good
night to each other.”
Mrs. Maryland holds a
first-degree black belt in
Taekwondo.
“We [enrolled] the children
in an activity that is athletic,
while teaching them respect and
discipline within themselves. I
watched them and thought, I
can do this, too. Our daughter
Kailyn [15] and I got our black
belts together. As women, it’s
important that we know selfdefense because this world is a
little bit crazy nowadays.”
She was orphaned at
birth in Korea.
“I was adopted at 3-1/2
months, sight unseen, by a
family in Churchville. Growing
up, there was never a time when
unconditional love wasn’t felt.
My past is a huge aspect of who I
am. It gives me compassion and
empathy for others, and helps
me maternally to cherish my
relationships with children a lot
more.”