Kerri Kendall, Miss September, 1990

Kerri Kendall, Miss September, 1990Tour the Apartment Kerri Kendall shares with her mother and you meet the members of Kern's animal kingdom. "That's Ulysses S. Grunt and Ulinda S. Grunt," she says, pointing to the pair of fluffy pink pigs--stuffed-animal variety--splayed atop the sofa. "They used to just date, but they're married now." On a shelf above the Grunts' soft snouts, clumped carelessly around the trophies Kerri won in local bikini contests, is a cloth menagerie of...