LAS VEGAS (CBS) – The Miss USA pageant gets underway Friday night in Las Vegas, and while it’s a dream come true for all the contestants, it’s a heroic accomplishment for one participant in particular.
Miss Iowa, 20-year-old Abbey Curran, made it a longtime goal of hers to compete in a pageant that some may have thought would never be possible.
“This is such a dream come true, bigger than a dream come true would be,” she says. It’s a dream that’s bigger for Curran because the college sophomore has cerebral palsy, a neurological disorder.