After being named Mrs. Western Kentucky State Fair in June, Chelsea Adams competed among 60 other women in last week’s Mrs. Kentucky County Fair Pageant and was the second runner-up.
Adams was born and raised in Hopkinsville and works as a nurse practitioner at Baptist Health Deaconess in Madisonville. Adams is no stranger to the pageantry world and says she competed in several pageants at the Western Kentucky State Fair as a teenager and then competed in the Mrs. Pageant in 2013 after marrying her husband the year prior.
Following the Mrs. Pageant in 2013, Adams says she decided to take a break from pageantry to focus on her career and family. She went on to have a daughter in 2014 and a son in 2022. Her daughter continued to carry the pageantry torch and was most recently the runner-up of the 2025 Miss Preteen Kentucky County Fair Pageant.
Adams’ daughter also helped her reignite her own pageantry flame. Adams says her daughter told her that she wanted her go through the pageant cycle with her after being on a 12-year hiatus.
The state pageant was hosted in Louisville, and contestants were judged on their introductions and attire to determine the top 10 contestants. Then, the remaining contestants had to answer questions on stage. Adams’ question was, “Where do you go whenever you want to get away, and why there?”
When she wants to get away, Adams told judges that she goes upstairs in her house to pray and take a break from the hustle and bustle of everyday life.
Adams says it felt good to comeback to pageantry and place third in the state pageant. Initially, she felt some fear and anxiety competing again, but says it brought her great pride to represent her hometown at the state level.
Now Adams says she would like to support girls and women competing in the local pageant system who go on to the state pageants.