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Abbey Nicole Curran (born 1987 or 1988)[1] is an American beauty pageant contestant from Davenport, Iowa , who competed in the Miss USA pageant in 2008 as Miss Iowa USA . Curran is the chairwoman of her own non-profit pageant "The Miss You Can Do It Pageant" for young girls and women with special needs.[2] The HBO documentary film Miss You Can Do It (2013) is about her work with this pageant.[3]
Miss USA 2008 [ edit ]
Curran, then 20, represented Iowa at the Miss USA 2008 pageant in Las Vegas , held on April 11, 2008, where she competed against District of Columbia and fifty other delegates. Curran was the first contestant with a disability. Curran was born with cerebral palsy . She also made an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show , CBS' The Early Show , Inside Edition , Access Hollywood , Extra , and CNN Headline News . She also had an exclusive feature story in People Magazine .[4] [5]
Personal life [ edit ]
Curran grew up on a farm in Kewanee, Illinois .[6] Curran is a graduate of Kewanee High School [7] and St. Ambrose University .[8] She is also a past Easter Seals ambassador. She received physical therapy services for cerebral palsy at the Easter Seals Peoria Service Center for many years when she was a child.
References [ edit ]
^ "Miss You Can Do It Gives Girls with Disabilities a Chance to be Celebrated" . Easterseals .
^ Abbey Curran Archived 2010-07-25 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Easter Seals Peoria Illinois : Abbey Curran - Miss Iowa 2008" . Archived from the original on 2011-07-10. Retrieved 2010-05-19 .
^ "Pageant Is Her Crowning Achievement" . CBS News . April 10, 2008.
^ Renken, Leslie (26 July 2014). "Kewanee pageant winner is driving force behind Miss You Can Do It contest for girls with disabilities" . Peoria Journal Star . Retrieved 24 January 2019 .
^ "Former Beauty Queen Turns Health Advocate" . St. Ambrose University . February 2012. Archived from the original on 2016-12-20. Retrieved 2016-12-07 .
External links [ edit ]
R e t r i e v e d f r o m " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abbey_Curran&oldid=1160385873 "
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