I always wanted to be a reporter — maybe some TV. Who knows? Some serious news — but some modeling, too.

I just don't want to end up like Katie Couric. I want people to take me seriously.

–Miss USA Rachel Smith, reminding us that when she's not "wearing, like, a hot pink Rocawear sweatsuit and paraded around my room at the Waldorf, just dancing with my crown" she's considering how best to achieve a serious career in journalism.

[via NYDN]