Career
Wineman is from Cut Bank, Montana, and states that as a child, she always felt different and was bullied. She said that she began to understand why after she was diagnosed with "PDD-NOS (Pervasive Developmental DisorderNot Otherwise Specified), an autism spectrum disorder" at the age of 11. As of 2014, she is an undergraduate at Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama.
Wineman did not grow up with an interest in beauty pageants, stating that she was instead the "girl with the hoodies on.
I never wore makeup all that much. Her older sister, Danielle Wineman, was named Mission Montana 2015 in June 2015.
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