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Kirsten Haglund - Miss America 2008 Profile

Kirsten Haglund (born 1988) is a beauty queen from Farmington Hills, Michigan who is Miss America 2008.

After winning the Miss Oakland County local title Haglund competed in the Miss Michigan pageant for the first time and was crowned Miss Michigan in June 2007. Haglund went on to represent Michigan in the Miss America 2008 pageant broadcast on TLC from the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino on January 26, 2008. She won a preliminary swimsuit award on Wednesday night, becoming her state’s first Preliminary Swimsuit award since 1987. At the conclusion of the live telecast, Haglund was crowned the 83rd Miss America. She succeeds Lauren Nelson, of Lawton, Oklahoma and is Michigan’s fifth Miss America and her state’s first for twenty years. At 19, Haglund was the youngest girl in the competition, and the youngest Miss America winner since Kimberly Clarice Aiken took the title in 1993. Haglund’s grandmother Iora Hunt represented Detroit, Michigan at Miss America 1944.

Haglund graduated from Walled Lake Western High School in 2006 and is pursuing a BFA in Musical Theatre at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati, Ohio, although she took a year off to fulfill her duties as Miss Michigan and prepare for the Miss America pageant and will postpone her studies until she has competed her reign. For her state talent she peformed “Adele’s Laughing Song” from the operetta Die Fledermaus and at Miss Michigan she sang “Over the Rainbow”. Her platform is eating disorder awareness, as she suffered from anorexia when she was sixteen.

During her first week as Miss America, Haglund appeared on Live with Regis and Kelly, ABC News Now, Inside Edition and Fox and Friends As part of her support of the Children’s Miracle Network, the official platform of Miss America, Haglund has been named spokesperson of IHOP’s third annual National Pancake Day in February 2008.

Birth name: Kirsten Haglund
Birth location: Farmington Hills, Michigan
Eye color: Brown
Hair color: Blonde
Title(s): Miss Michigan 2007, Miss America 2008
Major Competition(s): Miss America 2008 (winner)

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