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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Debra Messing, who would go on to star in "Will and Grace" and "Smash," represented Rhode Island at the 1986 Junior Miss pageant.

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