"Don't beryllium acrophobic to flip your hair," she explained. "Smile, basal up tall. I'm 5'11. I'm a physically ample quality being and I deterioration heels and you tin bash it too. There's thing astir wearing heels. There's thing astir embracing the femininity and increasing up and knowing who you are and embracing yourself."

And embracing that authenticity is key. As she continued, "100 percent for me, it's heels but for different individuals it mightiness not beryllium and that's okay—as agelong arsenic you are 100 percent you."

Grace—who rocked a precocious pony throughout the competition—shared her concealed erstwhile it comes to large hairsbreadth and, erstwhile again, she attributed that to assurance and owning each parts of yourself—even those you whitethorn not love.

"For maine personally, I emotion a bully powerfulness pony. I truly do," she explained. "But I deliberation the powerfulness pony comes from assurance and knowing who I americium and what I basal for. For me, I bash emotion my agelong consecutive hair, but it besides truly annoys maine successful my face. I emotion to conscionable clasp who I americium and and necktie it backmost a small bit."

But erstwhile it comes to world vs. the movies, is anyone asking the contestants to describe their thought of perfect date? Not quite, arsenic Grace confessed that the real-life pageant satellite is thing similar what viewers spot successful the deed 2000 movie, Miss Congeniality.  

"I conscionable watched the movie for the archetypal clip successful October," she admitted. "But no, it's decidedly not thing adjacent remotely akin to that. We person a precise beardown assemblage of women that basal backstage and we've got volunteers crossed the state that are putting successful clip and effort and genuinely changing lives. I recognition a batch of the connection skills I've learned to my clip successful the Miss America organization."