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 - Lucy Lawless
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Lucy Lawless, who rose to fame as the "Warrior Princess" Xena and has since starred on "Battlestar Galactica" and "Spartacus," was crowned Miss New Zealand in 1989.

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