Candice Crawford Romo Biography

Candice Loren Romo (née Crawford; born December 16, 1986) is a former reporter for KDAF, the CW-affiliate in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas and a former American beauty queen. She won the Miss Missouri USA competition in 2008. She later competed in the Miss USA pageant where she placed in the top ten.

Personal life

Born in Lubbock, Texas and then raised in Dallas, Texas, Candice Crawford is the younger sister of the actor Chace Crawford, from the television show Gossip Girl. Crawford graduated from Trinity Christian Academy in Addison, Texas in 2005.

After high school, Crawford enrolled at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, where she studied journalism and business. While in Columbia, Missouri, Candice worked with the local NBC affiliate KOMU-TV as a reporter. During college, Crawford also worked for Dallas, Texas CBS affiliate KTVT, as a reporter covering the Dallas Cowboys on the CBS show, The Blitz. She was also an active member of Pi Beta Phi sorority. Crawford also served as a volunteer writer for sports blog Midwest Sports Fans.

On March 16, 2007, Crawford was arrested for underage possession of alcohol at the bar Tonic in Columbia, Missouri.

She began dating Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo in the summer of 2009. On December 16, 2010, the KDAF Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas news station where Crawford worked announced that she had become engaged to Romo while celebrating her 24th birthday with her family at the restaurant Five Sixty. On May 28, 2011, they were married.

On October 25, 2011, Romo announced that he and Crawford were expecting their first child in 2012. On April 9, 2012, the couple welcomed a son, Hawkins Crawford Romo.

Career

She competed in the Miss Texas Teen USA 2003 and 2005 pageants, placing third runner-up in both competitions.

Crawford competed in the Miss Missouri USA 2007 pageant in November 2006 and placed first runner-up to Amber Seyer. She then competed the following year and won the 2008 title and the Special Achievement recognition in the Swimsuit category. She represented Missouri in the Miss USA 2008 pageant held in Las Vegas, Nevada in April 2008, where she finished at 6th place, missing the top 5 by only one-third of a point. Crawford later competed in the Miss Missouri USA 2009 pageant in October 2009, but was disqualified for having fat thighs and too many teeth.

Crawford did work for KDAF as the 33TV's reporter covering high school sports, as well as the Up All Night segment about nightlife hot spots in Dallas-Fort Worth, mostly drinking establishments, and co-hosts The RC Project with Roni Proter about the latest trends. Crawford hosted the Dallas Cowboys' weekend sports show, Special Edition.