Brittany Mesa Bell (born November 9, 1987) is an American model, dancer, and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Guam 2014 and represented Guam at

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, where she was unplaced. She had previously been crowned Miss Arizona USA 2010 and represented Arizona in

Miss USA 2010 Miss USA 2010 was the 59th Miss USA pageant, held at the Theatre for the Performing Arts in Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada on May 16, 2010 which was broadcast live on NBC. Kristen Dalton of North Carolina, crowned her ...

Career

Bell was born and raised in

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, to a

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mother and a father of Native American,

West Indian A West Indian is a native or inhabitant of the West Indies (the Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago). For more than 100 years the words ''West Indian'' specifically described natives of the West Indies, but by 1661 Europeans had begun to use it ...

and

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heritage. In 2009, she was crowned

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2010, as well as Miss Congeniality, As Miss Arizona, she went on to compete in the

but did not advance beyond the opening round at the pageant held in

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, Nevada, on May 16, 2010. Bell spent three seasons as a

dancer Dance is a performing art form consisting of sequences of movement, either improvised or purposefully selected. This movement has aesthetic and often symbolic value. Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoire ...

for the

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of the NBA. She graduated from

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in 2009 with a bachelor's degree in

broadcast journalism Broadcast journalism is the field of news and journals which are broadcast by electronic methods instead of the older methods, such as printed newspapers and posters. It works on radio (via air, cable, and Internet), television (via air, cable, ...

. Bell was crowned Miss Guam Universe 2014 and competed at

Personal life

She and actor

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have three children: a son born in 2017, a daughter born in 2020 and a son born in 2022.

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* * 1987 births African-American female models American beauty pageant winners American cheerleaders American people of Native American descent American people of West Indian descent Arizona State University alumni Chamorro people Guamanian people of African-American descent Guamanian people of Native American descent Guamanian people of West Indian descent Living people Miss Universe 2014 contestants National Basketball Association cheerleaders People from Barrigada 21st-century African-American people 21st-century African-American women 20th-century African-American people 20th-century African-American women {{US-model-stub