Christine Kozlowski Merrill is your reigning Mrs. Americas Most Beautiful 2024. Her pageant career started as Miss Mississippi 2008 where she brought home the swimsuit preliminary at Miss America 2009. She was 2nd runner up to Miss Mississippi USA 2010 and also Miss Mississippi Collegiate America 2012 and first runner up to Miss Collegiate America, winning the overall interview and the overall evening gown awards.

Christine went on to pursue her love of performance and received a Bachelors  in Theater at the University of Southern Mississippi with a minor in Dance. During and after college she landed several roles some of which include co starring on the tv shows NCIS and  
Scream Queens, a national Popeyes commercial, a lead role in a trilogy of independent films, and some of you may remember her as the drunk mom in the PTA meeting for the film BAD MOMS. Earlier this year she played a lead role in an upcoming Faith based film.

In January 2022, Christine was widowed at 12 weeks pregnant with her and her late husband‘s second baby boy. 2 1/2 years later, she has remarried to Sean Merrill, who is actually the life insurance agent who paid her husband‘s death claim. Sean and Christine have known each other for 15 years and she was actually his very first licensed agent when she was only 19 years old.


Together Sean and Christine have four boys, Elijah, Ezra, Roman, and Joseph. She is a working film and commercial actress, the CEO of Hand Nutrition Supplement Company and she and Sean are the Senior Vice Presidents of Primerica Financial Services in their hometown of Diberville, MS