From beauty queen to Hollywood

POSTED: 01:53 PM PDT Sep 26, 2012    UPDATED: 11:00 PM PDT Sep 26, 2012 

Every aspiring celebrity has to start somewhere, and for certain stars that somewhere was the world of fake eyelashes, makeup and spray tans known as beauty pageants. Take a look at which stars were beauty queens first.

beauty queens - Kim Basinger
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She failed to make it to the finals, but Kim Basinger was an America's Junior Miss contender from Georgia in 1971 before going onto an acting career that would earn her an Academy Award for "L.A. Confidential."

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