Lisa Forbes

Pageant titleholder bio
title=Miss Kansas USA 2004
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nationalcompetition=Miss USA 2004
location= Olathe, Kansas
birthname= Lisa Marie Forbes
height=height|ft=5|in=10
eye color= Blue
hair color= Brown

Lisa Marie Forbes (born in 1982) is a beauty queen from Overland Park, Kansas who has competed in the Miss USA pageant and will compete at Miss Earth 2007.

Biography

Pageants

Forbes was crowned Miss Kansas USA 2004 on November 30, 2003, in Wichita, Kansas. [cite news|title= New Miss Kansas USA achieves her lifelong goal: Lisa Forbes, a BV Northwest graduate, will compete in Miss USA pageant|publisher=Kansas City Star|date=2003-12-24|first=Maggie|last=Hessal-Mial|page=7] She had previously competed in the pageant for five consecutive years, winning the interview award three times. She was a semi-finalist in 2003 and 2002, third runner-up in 2001 and a non-finalist in 2000. Forbes represented the "Sunflower State" at the Miss USA 2004 pageant in Los Angeles, California on April 12, 2004. The Miss USA 2004 Pageant was televised live on NBC. In late 2004 she gave up her crown to the 2005 Miss Kansas USA winner Rachel Saunders.

On August 1, 2007 Forbes won the United States Miss Earth title and will represent the United States at the Miss Earth 2007 pageant. She is the third consecutive former Miss USA State titleholder to hold this position. She competed at Miss Earth 2007 in Philippines but was the first former Miss USA delegate to be unplaced. The previous two titleholders made the cut.

Education and employment

Forbes was born in Olathe, Kansas and moved to Overland Park at age five. After graduating from Blue Valley Northwest High Schoolcite web | title = Official Miss Kansas USA 2004 biography | url = http://web.archive.org/web/20040603071817/misskansasusa.com/lisa_bio.html | accessdate = 2006-09-04] attended the University of Kansas where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication Studies. Forbes plans to pursue a career in either public relations or marketing, and claims her dream job would be on television as a television host. [cite web | title = Official Miss Kansas USA 2004 biography | url = http://web.archive.org/web/20040603071817/misskansasusa.com/lisa_bio.html | accessdate = 2006-09-04]

Forbes is passionate about American Quarter Horses, which she grew up riding, showing and training. In October 2000, she represented the Northeast Kansas Quarter Horse Association in the All American Quarter Horse Congress Queen's Contest in Columbus, Ohio.

In 2006 Forbes appeared on the "Paris" edition of reality television show "The Bachelor", but was eliminated in the first round. [cite news|title=FIVE W'S AND AN H: Booted bachelorette ready to get on with life |publisher=The Kansas City Star|date=2006-01-22] She was working as an IT recruiter at the time of her participation on the show. [cite news|title=2 Kansas Women Appear On 'Bachelor' |publisher=KMBC-TV|url=http://www.thekansascitychannel.com/entertainment/5964181/detail.html|date=2006-01-09|accessdate=2007-08-02] She and Ashley Litton, Miss Missouri USA 2004 own a pageant shop in Shawnee, Kansas. [cite news|title=Gown store caters to pageant competitors|date=2006-09-13|publisher=The Shawnee Dispatch|url=http://www2.shawneedispatch.com/news/2006/sep/13/gown_store_caters/|first=Caroline|last=Bower|accessdate=2007-08-02]

References

External links

* [http://www.misskansasusa.com Miss Kansas USA official website]
* [http://www.missusa.com/ Miss USA official website]

Vanbros titleholders
Year=2004
KS USA=Lisa Forbes
KS TUSA=Carissa Kelley
MO USA=Shandi Finnessey
Ashley Litton
MO TUSA=Alissa Reitmeier
NE USA=Guerin Austin
NE TUSA= [Meagan Winings
OK USA=Lindsey Hall
OK TUSA=Caitlin Graham