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.

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America's Junior Miss

"ABC World News" anchor Diane Sawyer (center) won the "America's Junior Miss" scholarship pageant as a representative from Kentucky in 1963. She told People magazine in 1986 that she used the $11,000 she won to pay for her first year at Wellesley College.

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