Winner of 2017 Miss USA announced! Miss District of Columbia wins the crown; Here is the full story
- The show related to the beauty pageant is something which acquires the beauty of the person alongside their sense of humor and overall personality.
- There are many beauty pageants in every country of the world.
- Miss World is the most famous and all over the top.
Recently, a beauty pageant was held in the USA called “Miss USA”. And the result of the show is now out. “Miss USA” got its new winner for the year 2017. Previous Miss District of Columbia successfully grabbed the crown of Miss USA.
The 2017 Winner of Miss USA announced
And your 2017 #MissUSA is…
Miss District of Columbia, Kara McCullough! pic.twitter.com/7LxXPBPfeu
— Miss USA (@MissUSA) May 15, 2017
Time for celebration for Miss District of Columbia! She won back the crown of Miss USA after being Miss District of Columbia. Kara McCullough is a 25-year-old chemist who works for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
She successfully grabbed the crown of Miss USA at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center on the Las Vegas Strip. Followingly, now she will be going to compete in the Miss Universe contest.
Followingly, Miss New Jersey Chhavi Verg took the crown of the runner-up. She is a student at Rutgers University studying marketing and Spanish.
Miss Minnesota Meridith Gould became the second runner-up of the show. Gould is studying apparel retail merchandising at the University of Minnesota.
There were fifty-one women representing their own states. And all of them came after participating in the old competition.
Kara shared a photo of her after being Miss USA. She shared her happiness which could be clearly noticed by her caption in the picture. Kara captioned her picture in which she is alike sleeping with the crown on her head.
“The future belongs to those who believe in their dreams and execute them. Long thank you message to come after my flight to NYC.”
Miss USA 2017 Kara McCullough’s personal life and her appearance in the competition
Kara McCullough was born in Naples, Italy, and raised in Virginia Beach, Virginia. In the competition, she talked about her personal interests and much more.
The gorgeous Miss USA said that she wants to inspire children to pursue careers in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
In the competition, all the top five finalists got questions to answer about the pros and cons of social media, women’s rights, and issues affecting teenagers.
Kara giving the answer to whether she thinks that affordable health care for all U.S. citizens is a right or a privilege said: “it’s a privilege”.
Followingly, she said:
“As a government employee, I’m granted health care and I see firsthand that for one to have health care, you need to have jobs.”
Moreover, moving forward to the competition, McCullough, Berg, and Gould got the question asking to explain what they consider feminism to be and whether they consider themselves feminists. Miss District of Columbia said she likes to “transpose” the word feminism to “equalism.”
This year there were five contestants who immigrated to the US at a young age. Now as citizens hoped to represent the nation on a global stage. The women who immigrated were represented in Florida, North Dakota, Hawaii, Connecticut, and New Jersey.
Talking to The Associated Press, they opened up about the challenges and opportunities as immigrants.
The challenges and opportunities as immigrants for Verg
Ahead of the competition, Verga talked about she and her parents immigrated from India to the U.S. She said how they came to the U.S. with only $500 in their pocket when she was just 4 years old.
Also, opened up about the struggles she faced in the very first year. Kara mentioned that she didn’t have a winter coat in the first winner and how the family adjusted in the winter.
Moreover, she said:
“I want to show Americans that the definition of what it means to be American is changing. It’s not just one face. There are many different people who are Americans, and I feel like Asian-Americans often times are left out of the conversation.”
