Jamie Grimes (

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Solinger formerly Patterson, born c. 1975) is an American model and beauty queen who became the first and so far only woman from

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to capture the

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crown and placed third runner-up to Mrs America 2005.

Modeling career

Solinger started modeling through a Miss Caboodles competition sponsored by Teen Magazine. She placed as one of six regional finalists and was flown to Santa Monica, CA for a week long photo shoot. Another regional finalist there was Julee Kleffman, Miss Illinois Teen USA '92. Upon returning to Iowa, Jamie was signed with Ford New York. While with Ford, she worked for magazines such as Seventeen and Glamour. During a summer home from New York, she was spotted by the Iowa pageant directors and recruited to enter the Miss Iowa Teen USA 1992 pageant. After her pageant years were served, she moved to South Beach Miami where she continued to model for places such as Sunglass Hut, Newport News, JC Penney, some French editorial, and German catalogs. She eventually returned to Iowa to work with Hawthorne Direct, an infomercial producer, with whom she did work for Time, OxyClean, and Clorox.

Miss Teen USA

Solinger competed as Miss Iowa Teen USA in the 1992

pageant, broadcast from

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on 25 August 1992. Although the pageant was to be televised live, the threat of

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meant the pageant had to be recorded earlier. Both Solinger and eventual first runner-up, Angela Logan of Oklahoma were taped "''winning''" the pageant to maintain suspense. Only Solinger's crowning moment was shown on television as the legitimate titleholder. Solinger would become the first and only Miss Teen USA from Iowa and only the second teen from her state to place in the national pageant. Iowa would not place again until 1995 and 2003.

Miss USA

Solinger won the title of Miss Iowa USA in 1998, and competed in the 1998

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pageant alongside Shauna Gambill of

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who was Miss Teen USA in

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. This would be the last time any former

titleholder would take part in a

pageant. Before them, Kelly Hu competed in

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and

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. This would also be the second and last time two

winners would compete in the same Miss USA pageant. The only other time this happened was in

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, when Ruth Zakarian and Cherise Haugen competed with a ''Miss Teen USA'' sash, following an old rule from the

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that allowed them to compete without going through the state pageant system. After completing her year as Miss Iowa USA, Jamie crowned her sister Jaclyn as Miss Iowa USA 1999. They are one of few pairs of sisters to compete at Miss USA, and only second to win the same title in subsequent years. It would not happen again until 2003-2004 when sisters Alicia and Justine Michioka won consecutive

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titles.

Mrs. America

Solinger (formerly Patterson) then went on to win the 2004 Mrs. Iowa pageant and became third runner-up to Mrs. America 2005.

Gallery

File:Miss Iowa USA 98.jpg, Miss Iowa USA 1998 File:Jamie Solinger Patterson 2.jpg, Solinger with Tim Patterson File:Jamie Solinger Patterson.jpg, Mrs. Iowa America 2004

References

External links

Miss Teen USA official websiteMiss Iowa USA and Miss Iowa Teen USA official websiteMiss USA official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Solinger, Jamie Living people 1970s births Miss Teen USA winners Miss USA 1998 delegates People from Altoona, Iowa Mrs. America (contest) delegates 20th-century American people