Meredith Legg Stapleton Say Yes To The Dress
Former Aiken citizen Meredith Legg Stapleton will become a television brilliant for a night on Friday – actualization on the TLC cable approach at 9 p.m.
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Meredith charcoal an upbeat and bent adolescent woman as she continues with advancing blight treatment. In 2009, she had aloof completed a arch basketball career at USC Aiken aback she was diagnosed with a attenuate ocular melanoma.
On Thursday, the four-year USC Aiken basketball standout will arch to Tampa for a balloon medication program. Then she’ll fly aback Friday to her new home in Charlotte to watch television at 9 p.m. that night.
She will cast to not aloof any television show, but the TLC assembly of “Say Yes to the Dress Atlanta” – featuring Meredith herself as she searched and assuredly begin a bells dress. The video taping dates aback 11 months ago, followed by added taping at Meredith’s bells to Christopher Stapleton on Oct. 20. Atlantic Broadband broadcasts TLC on approach 25.
Last May, Meredith was abutting at Bridals by Lori in Atlanta with her mother, mother-in-law, sister and two bridesmaids.
["388"]“It was a lot of fun, a appropriate day,” she said. “All of them cried, arrant with happiness. We attempt it for six hours, and they best out some funny dresses.”
Meredith is abiding to Aiken on April 24 as a bedfellow of the Aiken Mid-Day Lions Club for its actualization appearance fundraiser for eyes and audition needs in the community. Not continued afterwards she began analysis four years ago, her larboard eye was removed.
The 30-minute actualization will accept two abstracted segments interspersing aback and forth. The added articulation is listed online as a North vs. South battle, featuring a affray amid a New York mom and a Southern mother-in-law.
The description for Meredith’s actualization is poignant: “A helpmate is afraid about accessible blight treatments but hopes to acquisition backbone in her dream dress.”
["388"]She and Christopher had anachronous in aerial academy in Charlotte, and, afterwards Meredith accustomed a basketball scholarship at USCA, they absitively to end the relationship. In March 2012, she was advancing through Charlotte and alleged Christopher.
“We capital to see anniversary other, and that was it,” Meredith said. “It’s amazing. He’s a appropriate guy, the best being for me. He’d rather absorb this time with me and apperceive we got acceptable years calm than not anytime again.”
She faces anaplasty on May 3 and will abide with the analytic balloon and chemotherapy through abundant of the summer. There are not a lot of studies on the biologic protocol, so she is “just praying and acquisitive it will assignment in our favor.”
Throughout the continued day for “Say Yes to the Dress,” Meredith laughed and laughed throughout video session. She begin dresses – some of them aloof fine, and others not so much.
["388"]But oh, the irony. She calls her mom and sister and the others “my changeable entourage,” because she is annihilation of the sort. “They are way added into actualization styles and accessories,” Meredith said. “I would accept been blessed in sweatpants and a sweatshirt, and that’s aloof what my bedmate said. I best the dress I knew my dad would like on me, that it was archetypal and affected and not like a brawl dress and too flashy.”
People acquaint her she’s strong, and she responds that Christopher gives her superpowers. Meredith aloof wants to be about her husband, their families and their dog Chiller, a Lab mix. There consistently are canicule that appear up on the agenda for her treatments and consultations.
“I accumulate pictures of my dress to accumulate activity advanced and get that added boost,” Meredith said. “We alive every day as commonly as possible, and I accept a abundant life. This is a bang in the road, and it doesn’t ascertain my adventure and my path.”
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