8. Lauren Caitlin Upton – THEN
Imagine being known as the girl who helped perpetuate the stereotype that beauty queens are dumb? Unfortunately, that’s how flustered teen Lauren Upton found infamy…
We all cringed as we watched Lauren answer – or fail to – a tricky question after being awarded Miss Teen South Carolina. After being asked:
“Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can’t locate the U.S. on a world map. Why do you think this is?”
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Upton went on for what seemed like a painful forever about “the Iraq,” “South Africa,” and “the Asian countries” and how “some people out there in our nation don’t have map”. It wasn’t pretty.
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