Last year, Grace Kim left her hometown with her high school sweetheart and headed west. Destination unknown, to pursue a modeling career. When the two road-trippers arrived at the last-chance casino border town of Primm, Nevada, 23-year-old Grace saw a billboard for a Miss Hawaiian Tropic model search that inspired her to make a u-turn back to Las Vegas. "I called the number and entered the contest," she says. "I won and became a state finalist." But when she qualified for the national competition, she hesitated. "My boyfriend and I needed to find jobs. He said, 'You have to go- that's why we came out here.'" Miss Kim took his advice and went on to win the nationals. She also snagged her first major modeling contract, with Hawaiian Tropic, and competes in the internationals this month completel nude.