Katherine Lee Graham (born April 30, 1997), known professionally as K. Lee Graham, is an American model and
beauty queen
A beauty pageant is a competition that has traditionally focused on judging and ranking the physical attributes of the contestants. Pageants have now evolved to include inner beauty, with criteria covering judging of personality, intelligence, ...
who was crowned
Miss Teen USA 2014
Miss Teen USA 2014, the 32nd Miss Teen USA pageant. It was held at the Atlantis Paradise Island Resort in Nassau, Bahamas on August 2, 2014 and was hosted by Australian journalist Karl Jeno Schmid and Miss USA 2013 Erin Brady. Cassidy Wolf of C ...
.
Early life and education
Graham was born on April 30, 1997, in
Florence, South Carolina
Florence is a city in and the county seat of Florence County, South Carolina, United States. It lies at the intersection of Interstates 20 and 95 and is the eastern terminus of the former. It is the primary city within the Florence metropolit ...
, as Katherine Lee Graham to Randall and Jennifer Graham. She is the second oldest of five children.
She has stated that her nickname "K" comes from her older sister, since when her sister was a baby she could not pronounce Katherine, and called her K instead.
Graham graduated from the
University of South Carolina in 2019.
Pageantry
Graham competed in Miss South Carolina Teen USA 2013 and finished as the fourth runner-up.
[ The following year, she competed in Miss South Carolina Teen USA again and was crowned Miss South Carolina Teen USA 2014. At Miss Teen USA 2014, she was crowned the winner, beating the first runner-up Miss Mississippi Teen USA Vaeda Mann.]
Personal life
Graham has been a vegetarian
Vegetarianism is the practice of abstaining from the consumption of meat (red meat, poultry, seafood, insects, and the flesh of any other animal). It may also include abstaining from eating all by-products of animal slaughter.
Vegetarianism m ...
since 2011 and enjoys theater, singing, dancing, acting, and writing. She runs a blog dedicated to empowering women and girls called Live Beautifully and actively participates with her church's child ministry.[
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References
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1997 births
Living people
Miss Teen USA winners
People from Chapin, South Carolina
Female models from South Carolina
University of South Carolina alumni
21st-century American women