Crista Nicole, Miss May, 2001

Crista Nicole, Miss May, 2001Last year, Crista Nicole left her hometown of Springfield, Ohio with her high school sweetheart and headed west--destination unknown---to pursue a modeling career. When the two road-trippers arrived at the last-chance casino border town of Primm, Nevada, 22-year-old Crista saw a billboard for a Miss Hawaiian Tropic search that inspired her to make a U-turn back to Las Vegas. "I called the number and did the contest," she says. "I won and became a state...