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- Birth nameJena Michelle Sims
- Height5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
- Actress and philanthropist Jena Michelle Sims was born on December 30th, 1988 in Winder, Georgia USA. This small town beauty queen has shared the screen with Morgan Freeman, Robert De Niro and Jeremy Renner, to name a few. Her internationally award-winning non-profit organization holds events, called "Pageants of Hope", giving children facing challenges the chance to escape the hospital life and celebrate inner-beauty, crowning everyone Prince or Princesses. She is best- known for Last Vegas (2013), Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader (2012) and Dead Reckoning (2013).- IMDb Mini Biography By: Kelli Jones
- Jena Michelle Sims (born December 30, 1988) is an American actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder who has held the Miss National Junior Teenager title and competed in the Miss Teen USA pageant in 2007.
Jena Sims grew up in Winder, Georgia and graduated from Winder-Barrow High School in 2007. She briefly attended Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she studied International Business. Jena in Hollywood, California pursuing a career in modeling and acting. She stars in the 2012 film, Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader.
In 2004, Jena Sims was crowned Miss Georgia Junior National Teenager and later won the Miss Junior National Teenager title 2005. A year later, Sims won the Miss Georgia Teen USA 2007 title in a state pageant held in Newnan on 11 November 2006. It was her second attempt at the title, as she placed in the semi-finals in the 2006 event. She was crowned by outgoing titleholder Brittany Sharp, who placed fourth runner-up in the Miss Teen USA pageant in August. Sims represented Georgia in the Miss Teen USA 2007 pageant broadcast live from Pasadena, California in August 2007, but did not place. She was the first Miss Georgia Teen USA not to place in the pageant since 2003.
Jena Sims runs a non-profit organization that hosts beauty pageants for children with cancer and other disadvantages called the "Pageant of Hope". The pageants have been held in Winder, Tennessee, New York, Michigan, Wisconsin, California and she will be expanding into South Carolina. In 2006 she received a Southern Hero award, and won a Prudential Spirit of Community award in 2003. In 2006 she was honored with an award from the Caring Institute in Washington DC, recognizing her work with children with cancer. The following year she was one of twenty-seven American teenagers given the "Nestle Very Best In Youth" award for her community service. Her Pageant of Hope has also been awarded numerous State and National Community Service awards such as The Nestle Very Best in Youth National Award, Brick Do Something National Award and the Prudential Spirit of Community Bronze and Silver medallion. She has been named a Georgia Young Entrepreneur by NFIB, a WXIA Kids Who Care winner, and a Huggable Hero by Maxine Clark and Build a Bear Workshop.
Her first role was the main role of Cassie in Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader (2012), and she appeared in an episode on the Tv series Entourage. She is due to appear in Sharknado 5 in August 2017.- IMDb Mini Biography By: ahmetkozan
- SpouseBrooks Koepka(June 4, 2022 - present) (1 child)
- ChildrenCrew Sims Koepka
- Gender / Gender identityFemale
- Miss Georgia Teen USA 2007.
- She was born in Winder, Georgia and received the titles Miss Georgia Junior National Teenager and Miss Georgia Teen USA 2007.
- She is well known for her charity work, including the organization that she runs called Pageant of Hope.
- She briefly enrolled at Belmont University to study international business before heading to Hollywood to pursue a career in acting and modeling.
- She landed a main role as Cassie in her debut film Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader. She also appeared in Last Vegas and Kill the Messenger, the latter of which starred Jeremy Renner.
- Self confidence is very important in today's society. Feeling beautiful is a part of that. It is imperative for people to understand that beauty is what is on the inside, not the outside. You have to first have inner-beauty to exude outer beauty. It has always been my belief, even through my non-profit organization that I run, that true beauty is not something you can see. Not your weight, height, hair color or physical features. Team True Beauty seems to stand behind that idea and I support it!
- There's always someone, somewhere in the world that has it worse than they do. I have traveled to one of the largest slums in Africa and have seen it first hand. So trust me, if you think you're having a bad day or aren't feeling "hot" think about kids who are starving or don't have access to clean water- or even hand soap for that matter. For the people struggling to see their own, I would advise them to take something they are passionate about and turn it in to a charity project to make a difference in the world. For example, I took pageants and kids diagnosed with cancer and turned it in to an international cause. I hold pageants for kids who are sick or disabled where every child leaves as a winner. It is called the "Pageant of Hope". We focus on self esteem and self confidence. We dress them up, teach them the pageant walk, fix their hair and make-up, and carry out the entire pageant process. At the end of the day, we crown every child- boy or girl- a title such as "Best Dressed" or "Most Confident". It has been proven that raising overall well being and self esteem can boost these children in to remission faster. These children are more beautiful and heroic than any person I have ever met.
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