Laura Kaeppeler

Pageant Contestant

Birthday March 2, 1988

Birth Sign Pisces

Birthplace Kenosha, WI

Age 36 years old

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About

Best known as the 2012 winner of the Miss America beauty pageant, this Midwesterner had previously been crowned Miss Wisconsin 2011.

Before Fame

In 2010, she earned a degree in music from Carthage College in Wisconsin.

Trivia

During her time as Miss America, she attended a Children's Miracle Network Hospital event at the White House and made the acquaintance of President Barack Obama.

Family Life

She was born and raised in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Because her own father had served an eighteen-month prison sentence, she chose to highlight, as her pageant platform, the struggles of children whose parents were incarcerated.

Associated With

She succeeded Teresa Scanlan as Miss America; Scanlan, who won the national beauty pageant in 2011, had previously served as Miss Nebraska.