Kirsten Haglund

In October 2019, Haglund married Amadeus Müller-Daubermann, a head strategist for ThyssenKrupp, in Marco de Canaveses, Portugal.

She also served as a correspondent for the 6ABC telecast of the 2013 "Show Us Your Shoes" Parade, as a part of the Miss America Organization's return of the pageant to Atlantic City, New Jersey. As parade correspondent, she hosted segments alongside Lee Meriwether, Miss America 1955 and Phil Laduca, and conducted interviews with Bachelor host Chris Harrison and Good Morning America's Lara Spencer. She also appeared as a guest co-host for the hour-long 6ABC pre-pageant broadcast on September 16, 2013.

In other broadcasting work, she has appeared as a sideline correspondent for the 2012 and 2013 National Memorial Day Parades in Washington, D.C., televised in the DC Metro Area, conducting interviews with United States Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, actors Gary Sinise and Joe Mantegna and others.

Haglund married Ryan Smith in July 2012. The couple later divorced.

After her reign as Miss America 2008, Haglund lived in Los Angeles, California for a year, and then returned to school to finish her undergraduate degree, using the over $60,000 in scholarship she won competing in the Miss America Organization. She received a B.A. in political science from Emory University in May 2013.

Haglund represented Michigan in the Miss America 2008 pageant broadcast on TLC from the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada on January 26, 2008. She won a preliminary swimsuit award on Wednesday night, becoming her state's first preliminary swimsuit award winner since 1987. For the talent competition, she sang, "Over the Rainbow" from The Wizard of Oz. Her platform was "Eating Disorder Awareness," as she personally suffered from anorexia for five years beginning at age twelve.

After completing her year of service as Miss America 2008, she continued to travel and speak on body-image issues and eating disorders, also began her own 501 (c) 3 non-profit foundation, the Kirsten Haglund Foundation, in 2009 to provide treatment scholarships for women struggling with the illness. She currently serves as a Community Relations Specialist at the Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center in Lemont, Illinois and is an ambassador for the National Eating Disorders Association.

Haglund graduated from Walled Lake Western High School in 2006 and spent one year pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts in musical theatre at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati, Ohio. She took time off to fulfill her duties as Miss Michigan 2007 and also prepare for and compete in the 2008 Miss America pageant.

After winning the Miss Oakland County local title in 2006, Haglund competed in the Miss Michigan pageant and won in June 2007. She won a preliminary swimsuit award and at the conclusion of the final competition was crowned Miss Michigan. For her state talent, she performed "Adele's Laughing Song" from the operetta, Die Fledermaus.

At the conclusion of the live telecast, Haglund was crowned the 83rd Miss America. She succeeded Lauren Nelson, of Lawton, Oklahoma and was Michigan's fifth Miss America. At 19, Haglund was the youngest competing and the youngest Miss America winner since Kimberly Aiken took the title in 1993.

Kirsten Iora Müller-Daubermann (née Haglund; born September 14, 1988) is a public speaker, eating disorder awareness activist, commentator, and president of the Kirsten Haglund Foundation. She served as Miss America 2008.

Haglund's grandmother, Iora Hunt, represented Detroit, Michigan at the Miss America 1944 pageant.