Alabama native Abbie Stockard —who is dating Utah Jazz center Walker Kessler —claimed the title at the edition of the annual beauty pageant Jan. Like, holy moly. And the year-old nursing student, who was also a cheerleader during her tenure at Auburn University, had plenty of support from Walker, 23, who shared a heartfelt message on social media alongside photos with the newly-crowned pageant queen. Your hard work and trust in the Lord has awarded you with this incredible opportunity!
Use your light to shine on others around you! The 97th edition of the pageant saw Abbie prevail over 51 other young hopefuls, who represented each U. Annette Addo-Yobo , who was notably the first foreign-born Miss Texas, was named runner-up, congratulating her fellow competitor.
The ageless beauty was the first runner-up in the Miss USA Pageant in , then later went on to compete for Miss World, where she came in sixth. The unofficial queen of everything won the title of Miss Black Tennessee in and earned a scholarship to Tennessee State University.
The supermodel kick-started her career participating in dozens of beauty pageants. As Vanessa Minnillo, the starlet was crowned Miss Teen USA in before she started her modeling career and married one of our favorite boy-band hunks. Before becoming governor of Alaska and running for VP of the United States, Palin practiced her public speaking when she won the Miss Wasilla beauty pageant in Looks like this California girl was popular on and off the screen; the blond beauty was crowned Senior Princess of her high school in Before becoming a longtime host of Entertainment Tonight , the television personality won the title of Miss South Dakota in This Desperate Housewife was a stunner from the start, holding the title of Miss Corpus Christi in Wonder Woman was a badass before she even put on the cape!
Carter won the title of Miss World America in , paving the way for her career in television. This little princess stole the show way before she became a Disney phenom. Demi started her pageant career at a young age, winning the Texas State Cinderella Miniature Miss contest back in Ciao bella! The stunning Italian actress was only 14 when she competed in her first pageant in The classic beauty immediately caught everyone's attention earning her bit parts in local productions before she went on to become one of Hollywood's biggest stars.
