Miss USA has a history-making new queen. Justus Kelley , who represented Virginia, was crowned Miss USA 2026 on Thursday, August 27, at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami. At 31, Kelley didn’t just take home one of pageantry’s biggest titles. She shattered several long-standing barriers at once.
Kelley is the first mother, first married woman, and first woman in her 30s to win Miss USA in the competition’s 75-year history. She is also Virginia’s first Miss USA winner since 1970.
The milestone comes only a few years after Miss USA changed eligibility rules that once kept married women and mothers from competing. And for…
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