MOM PROFILE: Elaine Espinola Keltz
Local Pageant WINNER & Mom Encourages
“Empowerment Through
Entrepreneurship” TEXT ABBY SHORT
W hile many little girls playing dress-up
family,” Keltz says. “There are those times I have to force
dream of wearing a real crown one day,
myself to close everything down, though. Also, I involve my
for local mom, Elaine Espinola Keltz, this
children every chance I get. My girls know everything there
dream became a reality she won the title of
is to know about 3D mascara because they have had fun
Mrs. D.C. America in March. But, her life isn’t all sashes and
with me at various events while I am selling it.”
ball gowns. Aside from making appearances at countless
charity events, she has a high-level direct sales position and
Keltz had never considered a pageant until someone
is a stay-at-home mom to her three children.

approached her about the opportunity to compete in
Mrs. D.C. America. Despite the nerves and newness of
Keltz stopped working full-time after the birth of her second
the pageant world, she decided to go for it and took the
child. She is currently living in Loudoun County, VA, with
challenge head on. She was excited about the prospect of
her husband, Billy, and her children Jaden, 8, Nina, 6, and
representing married women in the city she loved.

Alyssa, 5.

“While I live in a suburb outside of D.C., my connection to
“I often say, I stopped ‘working’ and really ‘STARTED’
D.C. is where my heart is,” Keltz explains. “It is where I had
working! Staying at home with the kids is an entirely
my career, my first apartment, where I met my husband,
different set of arduous tasks. It can be mentally, emotionally
where we were married and where my children were born.”
and physically draining,” Keltz says. “Small children are
needy, of course, and I spent the first five years in my
Keltz competed against eight other women on the platform
pajamas, picking up Cheerios, changing diapers and tending
of “Empowerment Through Entreprenuership.” She won the
to all their needs — many times, for all three of them at the
title of Mrs. D.C. America, also walking out with the coveted
same time.”
Fitness and Sponsorship Awards. Keltz plans to compete in
the Mrs. America pageant this month in Las Vegas.

Aside from the duties of motherhood, Keltz is also a
ZumbaKids instructor and a top-level presenter for a direct
“Although I am new to pageantry, I have embraced it whole-
sales cosmetics company. She works “consistently and
heartedly and I feel so confident in who I am, what I believe
constantly,” often logging time on her iPhone, iPad and
in and what I have to offer as a representative for married
home office. “I weave my work through the day around my
women from our nation’s great capitol,” Keltz says.

10 September 2015 washingtonFAMILY.com