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Meet Miss USA’s first beauty contestant with Down syndrome

Mikayla Holmgren is breaking barriers.
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Meet Mikayla Holmgren – the first contestant with Down syndrome to compete in a Miss USA state beauty pageant. Competing had been a longheld dream of Mikayla’s.

“I want to be able to show others what inclusion is all about, that someone with special needs can go after their dreams,” she says.

Watch her OWN the stage in our video, above.

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