Mundo Miss: Miss USA At a ribbon cutting, Crystle Stewart dishes

Miss USA
At a ribbon cutting, Crystle Stewart dishes
By Glenn Yoder
Globe Staff / September 12, 2008

"You need to spend a week with me," reigning Miss USA Crystle Stewart says during our few hours together last week. "See if you can take it."

One thing's for certain: A week with Stewart would mean a week's worth of ideas about how she could change the world, a plus for a beauty contestant who is often asked that very question.

"I came up with an invention," she boasts to the photographer, eyeing his camera, immediately upon meeting us in the Lenox Hotel lobby. "It's a video camera where the eye part can flip to the other side, in case your shoulder gets tired."

After being told that the invention already exists -- and is quite expensive --Stewart frowns and looks legitimately perturbed. But all is forgotten a few hours later at a luncheon at the New Balance headquarters in Brighton. She again mentions her rotating viewfinder invention, as well as ideas for starting a "charm school" and an "America's Next Top Model"-type reality show about beauty pageants.

"I swear, if y'all steal my idea, I will hunt you down," the Missouri City, Texas, native says of the reality show, with a faint Southern drawl.

Stewart is naturally beautiful --she's 26, tall (of course), and has light black skin and the flawless lips, eyes, and teeth you'd expect of a Miss USA. She's worn out after arriving at Logan Airport on a red-eye from Los Angeles earlier that day and claims she didn't even brush her hair after a quick nap. But later, after quickly doing her makeup, she looks pageant-ready.

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