Nobody would have ever guessed that a 16-year old Bree Boyce would one day become Miss South Carolina.
That’s because the 22-year old brunette from Florence, South Carolina, weighed 230 pounds during her teenage years. She was able to drop 110 pounds not by dieting, but instead embracing a lifestyle of moderate eating.
In what came down to a battle between two best friends, Alyssa Campanella of Los Angeles, California was crowned Miss USA 2011 Sunday night at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, NV.
The 21-year-old beauty beat out Miss Tennessee Ashley Durham to take the title, the 60th in the pageant’s long-running history.