- Growing up, she was a 4-H member and showed dairy cattle at the Jackson County Fair. She graduated from Seymour High School and is currently a senior at the University of Indianapolis studying communications. She is a member of Immanuel Lutheran Church, Seymour, Indiana, where her mother teaches 5th grade at the Lutheran elementary school.
- Miss Indiana 2008.
- Miss America 2009.
- Grew up in the same southern Indiana town (Seymour) as rock legend John Mellencamp.
- Engaged to Brian Irk, a personal trainer from Indiana [January 30, 2010].
- Son Wrigley Irk was born in November 2016. He was named after the Chicago baseball stadium, after the Cubs won the World Series on November 2.
- Gave birth to daughter, Charlotte Bell, in August 2013 and delivered a second daughter named Rose Lee Esther in May 2015.
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