 Alderson was Miss Tennessee Teen USA 1994, Miss Tennessee 1999 and Miss Tennessee USA 2002.On May 15, 2004, Alderson married Jay DeMarcus, bassist/pianist in the band Rascal Flatts, whom she met when she acted in the video for the band's song "These Days".The couple's first child, a daughter named Madeline Leigh DeMarcus, was born on December 17, 2010.