Oldest Woman to Win Miss USA Title Shares Her Beauty Secret

Justus Kelley/Instagram Beauty queen Justus Kelley is sharing details of her unusual health and fitness routine as the oldest-ever winner of the Miss USA pageant.

The 31-year-old Virginia native was crowned on Aug.

27 at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, Florida, succeeding Audrey Eckert.

Eckert, who represented Nebraska in Miss USA’s 2025 pageant, was just 23 when she won the top title.

In addition to breaking a record as the first woman in her thirties to win the national competition, Kelley is the first married woman and foster mother to hold the Miss USA title.

Kelley told Fox News Digital that she “had to get creative” with pageant prep for this competition.

“I’m not going to pretend like I was able to dedicate the same amount of time as what I did in the past,” she said in a Sept.

19 interview.

She added, “I did walking classes with my baby on my chest, in his carrier.

I did squats in my living room while holding my 2-year-old.

I practiced interview questions while feeding my toddler.” Kelley said she abandoned social media to work out in her spare time.

“If I can’t make it to the gym, I’m just lying on the floor, elevating my leg and mirroring what I would’ve done on that machine,” she explained.

Continuing, “A lot of times you’ll find me at home in the living room.

I might be watching a movie or doing some self-care, but I am on the floor crunching it out during that movie.” The Miss USA winner said her husband, Tyler, whom she married in 2017, has supported her since her first pageant more than 10 years ago.