Candice Bennatt

Candice Bennatt
Beauty pageant titleholder
Born Candice Marie Bennatt
1989 (age 2627)
Houston, Texas, U.S.
Height 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Hair color Black
Eye color Brown
Title(s) Miss New Mexico 2012
Miss Louisiana USA 2015
Major
competition(s)
Miss New Mexico 2012
(Winner)
Miss America 2013
Miss Louisiana USA 2015
(Winner)
Miss USA 2015
(Top 11)

Candice Marie Bennatt (born 1989 in Houston) is an American beauty pageant titleholder from New Orleans, Louisiana.

Early life

Bennatt was born in 1989 in Houston to an Italian father and a Puerto Rican mother and raised in the neighborhood of Kingwood. She has been a cheerleader for the Houston Texans.[1][2][3] She graduated from Kingwood High School and earned a bachelor's degree in biology with a minor in communications from Sam Houston State University; she is currently a law student at Loyola University New Orleans.[1]

Prior to the Miss USA pageant she was a promotional model and a past finalist in the Miss Darque Tan 2010 Model Search, and a past contestant with Bikini USA (2009). She was a past model with the Texas Bikini Team during the 2009/2010 season (appearing in the calendar and poster), and a past contestant for the Swimsuit USA Model Search in 2011 (placed in the first preliminary but withdrew from the state finals). As of 2015 she has disowned her past association with the promotional modeling she has done in the Houston, TX area.

Pageantry

Early pageantry

Bennatt became Miss Albuquerque Outstanding Teen while in high school. She won Miss Dallas in November 2011 and competed in Miss Texas and placed 4th runner-up. She also won both the Preliminary Swimwear and Overall Swimwear competitions.

Miss America 2013

Bennatt won Miss New Mexico in June 2012,[2] after which she competed in Miss America 2013.[1]

Miss USA 2015

In October 2014 she was crowned Miss Louisiana USA 2015 and represented Louisiana at Miss USA 2015 where she competed to succeed the current titleholder, Nia Sanchez of Nevada, eventually finishing in the Top 11.[1][4]

References

Awards and achievements
Preceded by
Brittany Guirdy
Miss Louisiana USA
2015
Succeeded by
Incumbent
Preceded by
Sarina Turnbull
Miss New Mexico
2012
Succeeded by
Alexis Duprey


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