Miss America Mallory Hagan unsure about attending inauguration

Miss America 2013 Mallory Hagan arrives at the OurTime.org Inaugural Youth Ball Generation Now Party on Jan. 19, 2013, in Washington. / Nick Wass/Invision/AP

WASHINGTON Mallory Hagan says her first week as Miss America has been amazing, but she's not sure she's going to Inauguration Day because of the weather.

The 23-year-old said in an interview Saturday that it may be too cold to attend President Barack Obama's public swearing in ceremony on Monday.

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Hagan said she has a ticket and is "in the middle of deciding" if she'll go because "it's going to be freezing."

She spoke at an event for OurTime.org, which featured will.i.am and John Legend.

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Miss New York is crowned Miss America

Hagan won the Miss America title in Las Vegas last week, after tap dancing to a James Brown tune, answering a question about gun violence in schools and raising the issue of child sexual abuse in her contestant platform. She was born in Alabama, but moved to New York at 18. She was named Miss New York last year and lives in Brooklyn.

She also said she feels "overwhelmed, excited, humbled" after having the crown for a week.

[limpy55]

i don't blame her ! i wouldn't go myself !!!

[limpy55]

i don't blame her ! i wouldn't go myself !!!

[hypnotoad72]

She doesn't have the body of an 80 year-old, so the claim of weather only does more to confirm rightwingers' belief that Americans are soft and (what's analogous to the name accorded a certain type of flower)...

And I don't care what her political beliefs are. She's an adult, now.

Or so the theory goes.

[BWB2020]

"Miss America" can't afford a couple layers of clothing, a heavy coat, and some headwear?

Is the Donald too poor, or too miserly to lend her some winter wear?

Are the clothing designers whose garb she modeled during the pageant, unable to design some practical clothing?

Yeah, sure.

Baggers are such maroons.

[hypnotoad72]

How's she related to Donald Trump?

And this "The Donald" product would either sell it to her, or charge exorbitant percentage rates that even the ancient Romans and Muslims would blush over and then give himself a bonus in return for the higher "profit" generated...

[ReasonableVoicesAmongUs]

This one is going to be a problem for Trump.

[Solarrays247]

Miss America, I'd like to suggest that you pull on your flannel "big girl panties" and attend Inauguration Day tomorrow if you're supposedly representing our country. American women are strong and focused. I'd like to propose that you begin to appropriately and properly represent your role? Otherwise, you certainly do not represent this American woman!

[NM_Jester]

This is definitely a, "*****, please!" moment. If her title was of any real consequence, I would suggest stripping her of it as she absolutely has failed to represent the American people. Instead, I think her reticence is just another nail in the coffin of this faux contest that is increasingly irrelevant.

[hypnotoad72]

Since she had to strip to earn the title...

[hypnotoad72]

Since she had to strip to earn the title...

Oh, since these properties seem to gush when they win, this (legitimately irrelevant and outdated in an evolved, discrimination-free society) contest still means something to them.

[marcie10000]

"Too cold?" That's ridiculous.

[chwick]

wow NY is a little further north than DC so she uses blonde logic.....amazing simply amazing.
is she a Trumpett ?

[aasrslb]

Too cold? What a great representative of America she is.