Laura Kaeppeler Biography
Laura Kaeppeler (Laura Marie Kaeppeler) is an American beauty pageant titleholder crowned Miss America 2012 on January 14, 2012, representing the state of Wisconsin. Kaeppeler was the first woman representing Wisconsin to win Miss America since Terry Anne Meeuwsen won Miss America 1973. Laura Kaeppeler was briefly on the Board of Directors for the Miss America Organization.
Laura Kaeppeler Age | Laura Kaeppeler Height
Laura Kaeppeler is a 31-year-old beauty pageant titleholder crowned Miss America 2012 in Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States. Laura Kaeppeler stands at a height of 5 feet 8 inches and a weight of 135 lbs. Todd Phillips grew up with his family in New York alongside his sister Jill Ginsberg.
Laura Kaeppeler Family
Laura Kaeppeler was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the United States to Jeff Kaeppeler and Sue Kaeppeler. she wore a white bikini, and for her evening gown, Kaeppeler wore a black customized Tony Bowls beaded dress.
Laura Kaeppeler Husband | Laura Kaeppeler Child
Laura Kaeppeler married Mike Fleiss on the 6th of April 2014, her wife Mike Fleiss is a TV producer who previously served as a judge at the Miss America 2012 pageant. On the 10th of July 2019, Mike filed for divorce from Laura.
They cited the reason for the divorce being irreconcilable differences. Laura Kaeppeler has one child known as Benjamin, born a year after their marriage. Despite the large gap in their age, Laura and Mike said “I do” on April 6, 2014, and it was a day she tweeted at the time was “the happiest day of my life.”
Now, that their separation is turning nasty, their happy wedding day must seem like a far distant memory. In the documents filed by Laura, she alleges that Mike threatened her after learning she was pregnant with their second child. “While we were at our house in Kauai, Mike demanded that I get an abortion.
Our son Ben was in the house, seated in another room nearby. Mike told me, ‘If you have an abortion, then we can just go back to the way we were.’” In the documents, Laura further alleges, “While Mike has frequently been verbally abusive towards me during our marriage, in recent weeks, he has become enraged, due to the fact I am pregnant with our second child.
Mike told me many times that he did not want us to have a second child. He also repeatedly told me throughout our marriage, and prior to our marriage, that he knew he would ‘have to have’ one child with me because I was 26-years-old when we got married, did not yet have any children, and he knew I wanted to have a family. Mike, however, being 55-years old, did not want to have more than one child together.”
Laura Kaeppeler Education
Laura Kaeppeler attended St. Joseph High School and Carthage College, where she graduated in 2010 with a degree in music. At the 2011 Miss Wisconsin Pageant, she won the preliminary talent award, which she tied with Raeanna Johnson, who later took over the Miss Wisconsin title after Laura won Miss America.
Laura Kaeppeler Theater
Laura Kaeppeler started by winning the title of Miss Kenosha in 2009. She moved on to win the talent preliminary award and was attained the second position in Miss Wisconsin in 2010. In 2011, at the Miss Wisconsin Pageant, she won the preliminary talent award.
At the Miss America 2012 competition held in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Theatre for the Performing Arts of Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino, she represented her home town, Wisconsin. She won the talent portion and a $2,000 scholarship with her rendition of the Luigi Arditi waltz “Il Bacio”.
Laura Kaeppeler chose a platform of supporting and mentoring children of incarcerated parents in memory of her past as her father who spent 18 months in prison for mail fraud.
In the lifestyle and fitness competition, she wore a white bikini, and for her evening gown, a black customized Tony Bowls beaded dress.
Laura Kaeppeler rose above first runner-up Miss Oklahoma 2011, Betty Thompson, for the title of Miss America 2012 and was crowned by Teresa Scanlan (Miss America 2011). Along with the title of Miss America, she also won a $50,000 scholarship.
During her time as Miss America, she attended a Children’s Miracle Network Hospital event at the White House and made the acquaintance of former President Barack Obama.
Laura Kaeppeler Miss America 2012 pageant
Laura Kaeppeler was Wisconsin’s representative at the Miss America 2012 competition held in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Theatre for the Performing Arts of Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino on January 14, 2012.
In the preliminary competition, Kaeppeler won the talent portion and a $2,000 scholarship with her rendition of the Luigi Arditi waltz “Il Bacio”. She chose a platform for supporting and mentoring children of incarcerated parents, as her father served 18 months in prison for mail fraud.
In the lifestyle and fitness competition, she wore a white bikini, and for her evening gown, Kaeppeler wore a black customized Tony Bowls beaded dress. In the final round, judge Lara Spencer asked Kaeppeler if beauty queens should declare their political viewpoint.
Kaeppeler then answered, “Miss America represents everyone, so I think the message to political candidates is that they represent everyone as well. And so in these economic times, we need to be looking forward to what America needs, and I think Miss America needs to represent all.”
Kaeppeler beat out first runner-up Miss Oklahoma 2011, Betty Thompson, for the title of Miss America 2012 and was crowned by Miss America 2011, Teresa Scanlan. Along with the title of Miss America, she also won a $50,000 scholarship.
Laura Kaeppeler Awards
Laura Kaeppeler went on to win the talent preliminary award and was second runner-up to Miss Wisconsin 2010, Kimberly Sawyer. One year later Kaeppeler won the title of Miss Southern Wisconsin 2010.
At the 2011 Miss Wisconsin Pageant, she won the preliminary talent award, which she tied with Raeanna Johnson, who later took over the Miss Wisconsin title after Laura won Miss America.
Laura Kaeppeler Miss America role
Kaeppeler met President Obama through a joint meeting with the Children’s Miracle Network Hospital Champions at the White House. Obama previously met with Miss America 2009 Katie Stam and Miss America 2010 Caressa Cameron during similar events.
Laura Kaeppeler Wedding
Laura and Mike’s Wedding Was Officiated By Chris Harrison
Laura Kaeppeler’s wedding was Officiated by Chris Harrison, with a long-time friend of the groom officiated the wedding between Laura and Mike Fleiss. The wedding took place on a Sunday Evening in Mike’s Malibu Home.
Mike walked down the aisle in 2014 to marry Laura, the Malibu ceremony presided by perennial Bachelor/Bachelorette/Bachelor in Paradise host, Chris Harrison. Also matching the long-running series’ tradition, Laura was given a five-carat diamond ring, and they exchanged handmade in platinum wedding rings, all designed by none other than Neil Lane.
Chriss Harrison has yet to weigh on the divorce news, and due to the information of alleged abuse that’s recently come to light, with photo evidence, it’s likely the Bachelor host will refrain from saying anything on the topic.
In the documents obtained by the Blast, Laura claims that Mike, who’s 6’4 and weighs 220 pounds, threatened to shove her down the stairs after a dispute, “grabbed my body, forcibly pinned me up against the wall and held me there.
After I broke free, he continued to use his arms and hands to aggressively push me away from him as he walked outside the door, still not returning my phone. Then he walked towards his pick-up truck parked outside in our driveway, shouting ‘I’m going to punch your face in.’”
Laura Kaeppeler Mike Fleiss
On July 7, Laura Kaeppeler was surprising news when it was revealed that Mike Fleiss, creator and executive producer of ABC’s most popular reality TV franchise, The Bachelor, was divorcing wife Laura Kaeppeler Fleiss, and it was both shocking and heartbreaking on July 16, when legal documents obtained by The Blast revealed she was accusing him of attacking her while pregnant with their second child.
The couple, who married on April 6, 2014, at his Malibu home already share one son together, Benjamin, who’s 4 years old. Mike and Laura signed a pre-nuptial agreement and had agreed to split the legal and physical custody of Benjamin.
But since her detailed report alleging years of physical and emotional abuse, for which she has provided alleged video and photo evidence, what looked to be a cut and dry separation is now looking like anything but.
Laura, who was crowned Miss America in 2012, and was granted a Temporary Domestic Violence Restraining Order against Mike, and she is looking to gain full custody of Ben, their dog Nina, exclusive possession of their home in Hawaii, and for Mike to enroll in a “batterer intervention program.” Amidst the breaking drama, Laura has deleted both her Twitter and Instagram accounts.
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