Like most of you, I’m a woman who wears many hats. Currently I get up at 2:45am every weekday morning for my TV news anchor job on Good Morning Mississippi / WLOX-TV. I’m also the proud owner of Legends of the Bayou RV Park in Bay St Louis, MS. I’m married to the love of my life, Joel Dorris, and together we have a blended family of 5 children and 3 fur babies.
Life has been a wild ride thus far too. I’ve held the titles of Mrs Mississippi American 2020 and Miss ‘Issippi 2017 – the bicentennial hostess of Mississippi’s 200th birthday celebration. I’m also the former owner/founder of Jaimee Designs Web Studios. Around the Gulf Coast I am known as “Ms Congeniality.” It’s the title of the TV show I produced and aired in South Mississippi and New Orleans. My book “How to be a Beauty Queen (or at Least Look Like One)” is launching in the fall of 2024. It’s a step-by-step guide for people who want to understand what it really takes to be a beauty queen. These days I’ve been bitten by the color analysis bug and have opened a beauty consultation studio in Bay St Louis to help others find their best colors.
Beauty and I have had a love-hate relationship most of my life. Growing up I wanted to be beautiful externally like the girls I saw on TV or in magazines. I just didn’t know how, I didn’t know the steps, and secretly I believed it was silly to try too hard. I use the words “beautiful externally” on purpose because I always felt gorgeous on the inside! Confidence came naturally to me; physical beauty was a mystery, however, and has become my life-long challenge. I’ve studied all aspects of it more than most.
If you’ve followed me for awhile now, you know I’ve gone through many chapters on this beauty journey. There was the coconut oil era, the gray-hair embracing era, and the “French Women Don’t Get Fat” era. Then came the life-altering beauty pageant era followed by the platinum hair era and finally the TV news anchor era. Each era challenged me to question my beliefs and grow. Together the eras form the pieces of my beauty puzzle.
If there’s one thing I know for sure it’s that beauty is INDEED something you can improve upon. It’s also a worthwhile goal too. But you need both information and the discipline to put what you learn into action to see results. Few things make me happier than to help another person feel more confident and look more beautiful because of something I’ve learned and shared.
Helping you brings me to life, and I hope that’s what I can do for you too!
Step into YOUR rainbow!
Seasonal Color Analysis Draping
Now offered in Bay St Louis, Mississippi — seasonal color analysis draping with Jaimee Dorris. This session is both informative and fun! Watch as certain colors brighten your complexion and erase years off your life while others do the opposite. This individual session lasts 1.5 hrs, costs $125, and the results last a lifetime.
“It makes shopping easier for sure…”
– Stephanie G.
“The session not only offers personal color clarity but also provides a significant confidence boost once implemented.”
– Geoorgie B
“I’m shocked! I can wear yellow… as long as it’s golden.”
– Whitney M.
The Making of a Beauty Queen
The Making of a Beauty Queen is a guide for those who want to become the most beautiful version of themselves either to compete in a beauty pageant… or to simply compete in life. TV news anchor Jaimee Dorris journeys into the mysterious world of pageantry to learn the industry secrets and habits of real beauty queens.
Like the real life Miss Congeniality, Dorris returned from the experience a changed woman. Her masculine — I don’t need to be pretty as long as I’m smart — attitude softened as she began to understand how the seemingly shallow focuses of pageantry translate into deeper confidence and graceful refinement off the stage. Basically.. being more beautiful was the step she needed to find even more success and happiness in her professional life.
This isn’t a manuscript arguing the righteousness of sexist beauty standards. Instead, it’s a step-by-step guide for those audacious enough to ignore the modern feminist mantras and instead indulge in their natural desire to be pretty.
Launching Fall 2024
Good Morning Mississippi Anchor
WLOX-TV
WLOX-TV and Ms Congeniality team up! In February 2022, I joined the team on Good Morning Mississippi as the co-anchor on weekday mornings. My goal is to wake viewers up with a friendly smile and fun wardrobe while finding ways to bring Ms Congeniality-type content to the morning show. I enjoy profiling people and their careers in the “In Their Shoes” segments and having guests join us on set or in the kitchen to talk during our daily “coffee chats.”
For me this venture is a trip back in time. I am a classically-trained journalist with a Bachelors Degree in Broadcast News from the University of Georgia. After working as a reporter in my early 20s, I left the industry to begin a more flexible career as a web designer.
Being back in the newsroom is like coming full circle! It was my childhood dream to become a news anchor. I hope to inspire more people to reach for their dreams no matter how silly or high they may seem.
Legends of the Bayou
RV Park
LEGENDS was inspired by an RV trip we took with our family in the summer of 2018. We went west, making it all the way to Malibu, California stopping at national parks and neat little attractions along the way.
Little did we know it at the time, but the family adventure ended up sparking a family business. We built Legends of the Bayou RV Park in Bay St Louis, Mississippi to welcome visitors from all across the country doing the same thing we did. It’s our goal to provide a safe place for you and your family to rest for a night, a week, or maybe all winter.
Whether you’re just passing through or you plan to stay awhile, let us be a part of YOUR adventure.
Season 3
Ms Congeniality TV
The Making of a Beauty Queen
This season of shows is the compilation of all that I learned in the last few years regarding beauty and pageantry.
From Nashville, to Tampa, Laurel, MS to Slidell, LA, the Ms Congeniality TV film crew traveled across the American Southeast in 2021 to bring you the queens, coaches and other pageant professionals I met during her journey to Mrs American. They are the seasoned professionals with decades of expertise to share.
They teach us about all elements of beauty queen life from diet and exercise to platforms and interviews. It’s a power-packed season full of the information you’ll need if you too want to be a beauty queen or at least LOOK like one.
Season 3 launches April 15, 2022 on Youtube.
Mrs Mississippi American 2020
Jaimee Dorris is well known in Coastal Mississippi for her hubby personality and wearing formal ball gowns. In 2020, she also held the title of Mrs Mississippi American.She competed for the title of Mrs American in March 2021 in Las Vegas. “Mrs America” features the most accomplished married women in America. Jaimee placed in the top 15 over all.
Jaimee began filming season 3 of Ms Congeniality — the Making of a Beauty Queen — to share with the viewers all that she learned throughout the journey.
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