Terri Britt

Terri Britt (née Utley; born November 19, 1961) is an American former beauty pageant winner and author.

Britt is a former news anchor for MovieTime, now E!, and was crowned Miss USA 1982.

Early life Britt was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, on November 19, 1961. As a young woman, Britt was involved in the American Legion Auxiliary Girls State program. She was also vice-president of the Cabot High School class of 1980.

Miss USA

Britt won her first major pageant title, Miss Arkansas USA, in early 1982. She went on to win the title Miss USA in the nationally televised pageant held in Biloxi, Mississippi in May 1982. She was twenty years old at the time.

Britt went on to represent the United States in the Miss Universe pageant in Lima, Peru in July of the same year. Her national costume was a Native American. In that pageant, she finished as fourth runner-up to Karen Dianne Baldwin of Canada.

Author Britt went on to write Message Sent: Retrieving the Gift of Love, and The Enlightened Mom: A Mother’s Guide for Bringing Peace, Love & Light to Your Family’s Life, which won the Best Spiritual Book of the Year at both 2011 New York and San Francisco Book Festivals. She is also a contributing author to the bestselling book, Women Gone Wild~Intuition.

Since 2000, she has been a spiritual coach.

In 2023, she presented a TEDx, Unconditional Self-Love: A New Family Paradigm to carry on her message of helping families get off of the societal hamster wheel to thrive instead of simply survive.

In 2024, Britt was named by Life & Style Magazine as one of the Top 10 Impact Leaders to Follow in 2024.

Personal life Britt is a wife, mom, stepmom and nana, and resides in the north Georgia mountains where she is the co-owner of JumpinGoat Coffee Roasters with her husband Charlie Britt.