Betty Maxwell Wants to Help People Choose Happiness

Maxwell performs onstage during the 2017 Miss America Competition at Boardwalk Hall Arena on Sept. 11, 2016, in Atlantic City, N.J. Michael Loccisano/Getty Images for dcp

Betty Cantrell Maxwell was only 21 when she was crowned Miss America 2016, and at the time she'd been doing pageants for only barely two years.

“It’s one of the only jobs I feel like where you go from a completely normal person to a celebrity overnight. And that is not easy,” Maxwell said. “It was a lot for me, especially going from basically nobody to celebrity.”