Luckily, despite the near win, Davis was a great sport about her second place finish.

“I’m ecstatic,” she stated during an April 2021 interview withUNT North Texan.

“I couldn’t be happier.”

Mary Lou Davis posing

“But yo girl liked to eat.

I fell in love with cooking,” she confessed.

But I still have so much to learn."

Mary Lou Davis gives a peace sign

“She notes, “It made me a stronger individual.

It’s like my plating techniques.

I’m my own individual, and I need to do what’s best for me.”