Snakes On a Beauty Contestant

Source: Fox News

Mrs. Tennessee was bitten by a rattlesnake on the way to rehearsals for the Mrs. America pageant — and was treated on the scene by one of her competitors for the crown, registered nurse Mrs. Idaho, according to The Tennessean newspaper.

Christina Ryan, 28, was leaving a breakfast Sunday at the Loews Ventana Canyon Hotel in Tucson, Ariz., when the wily serpent — coiled at the bottom of some concrete steps — struck, biting her on the foot.

Luckily, Mrs. Idaho — registered nurse Lauralyn Salinas, 37 — was with her and was able to extract the snake’s fang from Ryan’s skin, The Tennessean reported.

“I guess he bit me and let go,” Ryan told the paper. “I ran up the stairs and became totally hysterical … It hurt worse than childbirth.”