Jill Gulseth

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Jill Gulseth (born March 25, 1984) is a beauty queen from Geneva, Illinois who has held the title Miss Illinois USA and competed at Miss USA.

Gulseth competed in Miss Illinois USA 2004 pageant and placed in the semi-finals. Returning the following year, Gulseth won both the Miss Illinois USA crown and the Miss Photogenic award. This state pageant attracted 129 delegates. In April 2005 Gulseth represented Illinois in the Miss USA 2005 pageant held in Baltimore, Maryland, wearing clothing she had made herself, and placed third runner-up to Chelsea Cooley of North Carolina.

Gulseth graduated from Geneva Community High School in 2002. She was an education student at the University of Iowa when she won the pageant crown. Gulseth is involved with the Pi Beta Phi sorority and supports many philanthropic causes. In October 2004, she ran the Zeta Tau Alpha 5K to raise money for Breast Cancer Awareness and Education in honor of a family member and friend that has fought the disease. Gulseth used her reign to promote breast cancer awareness, the official cause of the Miss USA program.

Gulseth is also a professional model and was offered a contract with Trump Model Management after she competed in Miss USA.^[1] Her other hobbies consist of soccer, volleyball, dancing and shopping.

In November 2005, Gulseth passed on her Miss Illinois USA crown to Catherine Warren of Lake Forest.

November 20th, 2006, Gulseth presented at the International Emmy Awards held in New York City.

She was also briefly linked in a romantic relationship with Kid Rock for three months in 2006, who later left her for Pamela Anderson. Gulseth found out that Kid Rock was seeing Anderson on the television show Extra^[2] and also received a text message from Kid Rock indicating his relationship with Gulseth was over.^[3]

As the International Spokesmodel for Houbigant Paris, on November 4th, 2007 Jill Marie attended and spoke at the Chicago "Moda" Latino Runway Show During the 1st Annual Latino Fashion Week in the United States.