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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Are you nervous to work together?

Then we think, Do we want to be working together and living together?

Baby Ball Gala, NeueHouse Hollywood, Los Angeles - 21 Oct 2017

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Twenty years ago?!

I believe everything professionally and emotionally good in my life has single-handedly come from this event.

So talk me through the competition.

So all three of those factors define the next Miss USA and Im just super glad Im not judging.

My parents made me feel beautiful for who I was, not how I looked.

When I won I later asked the judges, What was it?

And they said, You acted like you were 17.

You were just a fun, quirky 17 year old.

You acted like you were 17 and thats what we want, MissTeenUSA.

Whats cool about the competition this year is that its very diverse.

Do you guys have to announce the winner at the end?

My eyes are starting to go; theres no telling what Ill read.VANESSA:Well,nowIm nervous.

Miss USAairs live Monday, May 21 at 8 p.m.