Danielle Doty (April 27, 1993) is an American model and

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who was crowned Miss Teen USA 2011.

Career

Doty first started her pageant career in the National American Miss system where she won the title of

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in several age divisions. Doty won the

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title on November 28, 2010, the first state titleholder from the

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. She represented

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; her win was Texas' second, following that of

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in 1996. As of 2011, she attended

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and is a member of

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sorority. Doty served as a finals judge at the

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pageant on July 12, 2015, in

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Personal life

On December 23, 2018, Doty announced that she was engaged to her long-term boyfriend, Dylan Fitzgerald. In January 2019, she announced on her Instagram that she had melanoma, a form of skin cancer.

References

American beauty pageant winners Miss Teen USA winners Living people 1993 births 2011 beauty pageant contestants 21st-century Miss Teen USA delegates People from Harlingen, Texas {{Texas-bio-stub