Danielle Doty (April 27, 1993) is an American

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who was crowned

Miss Teen USA 2011 Miss Teen USA 2011 was the 29th Miss Teen USA pageant. It was held at the Grand Ballroom, Atlantis Paradise Island, Nassau, The Bahamas on July 16, 2011. Miss Teen USA 2010, Kamie Crawford, crowned her successor, Danielle Doty of Texas, as Miss ...

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 Miss Texas Teen USA 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 Delta Delta Delta 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