Miss USA 2013

For all of you who watched the Miss USA Pageant last night, I'm sure you saw that Miss Connecticut was crowned as the 2013 Miss USA. She was of course beautiful, but besides that, she answered her final question flawlessly. The final question was the last round before they crowned the winner, and up until this point, Miss Connecticut kind of "blended in" with the rest of them. Her answer to the question "do you think that criminals should be subjected to a DNA test following arrest" was executed perfectly, she didn't stumble and she gave an honest and articulated answer. This question is definitely the reason why she won.

Im bringing this up because I think that typically everyone thinks that beauty always wins over brains, and in this circumstance it took both the win the competition. Miss Utah was a finalist from the beginning, from the minute she walked on stage she stood out from the rest. She was even crowned Miss Photogenic and made it to the top 5 easily. Then came the final question, and lets just say, I dont even think she knew what she was saying.

Up until this point I thought for sure that she would be top 3, and then this happened, and I wondered how she made it this far. I was shocked when the judges also agreed and placed her at 3rd runner up, It was nice to see that they actually were taking the answers to their questions seriously. I think that it's great that the Miss USA organization is looking from a woman how isn't only pretty, but is also smart (or at least can stand in front of a crowd and answer a simple question). Congrats to Miss Connecticut, she will spend her time as the 2013 Miss USA advocating for breast and ovarian cancer.