Miss America has a Greek mom

Betty Cantrell, a beauty of Greek origin, won the top US beauty pageant, securing along with the crown for a year, a $ 50,000 scholarship.

Betty Cantrell turned 21 years on 1 September. She is of Greek and German descent and her real name is Vasiliki, which she took from her grandmother. Beyond her talent posing gracefully on high-heeled shoes, which is essential to the pageant, like the interpretation of a piece from "Madame Butterfly," for the needs of beauty contest, she also has other talents.

She grew up on a farm and knows how to drive tractors, plowing, sowing, and how to handle a shotgun! She left all that behind her, however, when she took up vocal performance studies. She first appeared in a beauty pageant in 2013, and last year won the title of Miss Georgia and now came the great moment of coronation as Miss America.