Polly Suzanne Peterson Bowles (born January 22, 1959) is a beauty queen

Beauty contest

A beauty pageant or beauty contest, is a competition that mainly focuses on the physical beauty of its contestants, although such contests often incorporate personality, talent, and answers to judges' questions as judged criteria...

 from Edina, Minnesota

Edina, Minnesota

Edina is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States, and a first-ring suburb situated immediately southwest of Minneapolis. Edina began as a small farming and milling community in the 1860s. The population was 47,941 at the 2010 census.-Geography:...

 who has held the Miss Minnesota USA

Miss Minnesota USA

The Miss Minnesota USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Minnesota in the Miss USA pageant.Despite a strong start in the first three years of competition at Miss USA, Minnesota has been largely unsuccessful overall...

 title.

Peterson was born to C. Donald & Gretchen Palen Peterson. She has four brothers named Todd, Scott, Craig, and Mark and one sister named Barbara.

She competed in many pageants during her teen years and went on to win her Miss Minnesota sash in 1981. She and her sister, Barbara Peterson

Barbara Peterson

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, co-authored Becoming A Beauty Queen, an informational guide based on their experience with beauty pageants.

She is married to Dan Bowles with whom she has four sons named Jeffrey, Brett, Kevin, and Eric.