Candice Bennatt
Candice Marie Bennatt is an American lawyer and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss New Mexico 2012 and represented New Mexico at Miss America 2013 but did not place. She was crowned Miss [Louisiana USA|Miss Louisiana USA 2015] and then represented Louisiana at Miss USA 2015 where she placed Top 11.
Early life
Bennatt was born in 1989 in Houston to an Italian father and a Puerto Rican mother and raised in the neighborhood of Kingwood. She has been a cheerleader for the Houston Texans. She graduated from Kingwood High School and earned a bachelor's degree in biology with a minor in communications from Sam [Houston State University]; she is a graduate of Loyola University New Orleans with a degree in law and now runs a family law practice in Metairie, La.Prior to the Miss USA pageant she was a promotional model and a past finalist in the Miss Darque Tan 2010 Model Search, and a past contestant with Bikini USA. She was a past model with the Texas Bikini Team during the 2009/2010 season, and a past contestant for the Swimsuit USA Model Search in 2011. As of 2015 she has disowned her past association with the promotional modeling she has done in the Houston, TX area.