Jillian Parry Fry

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Jillian Parry was Miss Teen USA 2000, representing her home town of Newtown and state of Pennsylvania. She was the first titleholder from that state to win the national competition.

Parry entered the Miss Pennsylvania Teen USA pageant on a whim, after a postcard was dropped in her mail,^[1] and won on her first attempt. Parry represented her state at the Miss Teen USA pageant televised live from Shreveport, Louisiana on August 26, 2000.

In the final competition, Parry came second behind Nicole O'Brian of Texas in the swimsuit competition and in first place in the evening gown competition and won the pageant based on her answer to the final interview question. She was crowned by Ashley Coleman of Delaware, Miss Teen USA 1999.

As Miss Teen USA, Parry represented the Miss Universe Organization. Her "sister" 2000 titleholders were Lynnette Cole (Miss USA, from Tennessee) and Lara Dutta (Miss Universe, of India). She later gave up her title to Marissa Whitley of Missouri on August 22 2001.

Prior to her graduation (and winning the crown), Parry was a Future Business Leaders of America Phi Beta Lambda member.

Jillian Parry has been a vegan since 2002, for which she occasionally gets newspaper coverage. [1]

She [2] completed a Master's Degree from the University of New Mexico in 2006. In June, 2006, [[3] Jillian married Dr. Roderick Fry, a physical chemist from Kendall, NY, and they were married in Langhorne, PA, in a quiet simple Quaker ceremony.

She is currently a PhD candidate at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in Baltimore, MD.