Lauren Paige Nelson (born November 26, 1986) is a beauty queen from Lawton, Oklahoma who holds the Miss America 2007 title. Nelson is the second consecutive Miss America and sixth in the history of Miss America to hail from this state.^[1]

Nelson attended MacArthur High School and later graduated from University of Central Oklahoma with a degree in public relations.^[2]

Nelson married Randy Faram, a student minister, on October 24, 2009.^[5][6] Nelson gave birth to a son, Mason, in October 2013 and a daughter, Dawson Paige, in March 2016.

Nelson teamed up with host John Walsh on the FOX television show America's Most Wanted to assist in the apprehension of potential child predators, posing as a teenager online. Initial reports on May 1, 2007, stated that she did not plan to return to testify against those predators that were apprehended, putting the prosecution's case in jeopardy.^[7][8] However, she appeared to change her mind later that day, and it was reported that she would testify against the perpetrators.^[9]

On January 17, 2008, Nelson appeared on Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? playing for the Miss America Organization. She won $175,000 before "dropping out."

On August 2, 2010, Nelson joined KWTV in Oklahoma City, a CBS affiliate, as a co-anchor of the station's 4 P.M. newscast, which was reformatted from a traditional newscast to a lifestyle-oriented newscast.