Miss Iowa 2008

Abbey Curran is currently the reining Miss Iowa USA 2008. She was crowned in November 2007 and become the first state winner in the history of the Miss USA Pageant who has dealt with special challenge her entire life. Abbey grew up a hog farmer's daughter and was born with Cerebral Palsy and has dedicated her life to proving that no challenge or limitation is great enough to stop her from achieving her dreams.

Not only has Abbey successfully placed in over five pageants, she also took the life lessons she learned and created her very own non profit pageant for young girls and women with special needs and challenges. The Miss You Can Do It Pageant is now in its fifth year, and Abbey is very excited to see her pageant keep growing and would someday like to see the pageant become nationally known. Abbey is currently pursing her degree in public relations at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa.

In her spare time, Abbey loves water color painting, continuing flying lessons in the hope of one day getting her pilot's license, hanging out with her friends and family, eating her favorite pasta salad at Arthur's Deli and working closely with Easter Seals and the American Cancer Society. Abbeys lives by the motto "If you can dream it, you can do it!"