Career
O'Kelley represented North Carolina in the Miss Teen USA 2001 pageant which was broadcast live in August 2001, but did not place. O'Kelley returned to pageantry in October 2006, competing for and winning the Miss North Carolina USA title, also on her first attempt. O'Kelley grew up in Arden, North Carolina and graduated from T. C. Roberson High School.
She is a junior at North Carolina State University where she was studying for a major in broadcast journalism with a double minor in world literature and French.
