Miss America and a fertility specialist — made a bold proclamation to her now-wife, Abbott Jones. Downs “sort of joked that she was the only woman in Alabama who could get me pregnant,” Jones, 37, told The Post. “Because of what [she] does for a living.”Downs, Miss America 2005, followed through with her promise.
In late December, Jones learned she was pregnant with the couple’s first child, a girl who is due, appropriately, on Labor Day.The Alabama native went to the University of Virginia on a full volleyball scholarship, but she quit the team to focus on her studies.
Without her athletic funding, she entered the Miss Alabama pageant in hopes of earning scholarship money. She won in 2004, and unexpectedly found herself in the national.