“I knew the moment they called my name, my life was changed forever,” said Lauren Nelson, last year’s Miss America winner.
“It is unimaginable that a year has passed since being crowned. My year as Miss America was the best it could ever be.”
She was the second consecutive winner from Oklahoma in back-to-back years. The 21-year-old from Lawton, Oklahoma plans to now get her Master’s Degree in Music Education and become a music teacher.
During the past 365 non-stop days, there have been incredible highlights: She won $156,000 on the celebrity edition of FOX-TV’s Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader and donated all of it to the Children’s Miracle Network and the Miss America Scholarship Fund. Lauren posed as a 14-year-old girl in an internet chat room with America’s Most Wanted host John Walsh, which led to the apprehension of 11 predators! She also helped to raise over $1-million for the 170 CMN hospitals across North America during her year as the official Goodwill Ambassador.
Lauren is one incredibly smart, intelligent and attractive personality, plus a warm human being—the ideal Miss America, in fact! Just hours before she has to relinquish the crown and the title tomorrow night, we chatted one-on-one in the theater’s lobby where the hopefuls were rehearsing one last time:
Robin Leach: Are you sad it is almost at the end?
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