Mississippi is considered the least healthy state in the United States and has the highest incidence of chronic disease in this country. It is therefore essential that Mississippi health educators adequately teach health education to their students. Students are particularly influenced by the health behaviors practiced by their health educators; therefore modeling appropriate health behavior by Mississippi health educators (K-12) is imperative. The purpose of this study was to determine the health behaviors of Mississippi public school health educators (MSPSHE) who are endorsed in and currently teaching health in the areas of health responsibility, physical activity, nutrition, spiritual growth, interpersonal relations, and stress management. Correlations were used to determine if there was a statistically significant relationship between (a) overall health behaviors of MSPSHE and their opinions of healthy role modeling, (b) overall health behaviors of MSPSHE and their primary employment responsibility, and (c) primary employment responsibilities of MSPSHE and their subscale health areas. To determine the health behaviors and modeling practices of Mississippi’s heath educators, the Health Promoting Lifestyle Inventory II (HPLPII) was mailed to all MSPSHE (N=248). A 1 to 4 metric of item responses was used throughout the survey: 1 = never, 2 = sometimes, 3 = often, 4 = routinely. The results showed that MSPSHE sometimes or often practice overall health promoting behavior (M=2.78). Overall, 98% of MSPSHE reported modeling healthy behavior is often or very important (n=186). There was no statistically significant correlation between the respondents’ overall HPLPII scores and their opinions of modeling health behavior, r (188)= -.204, p>.05. There was no statistically significant relationship between self-reported overall health behaviors or subscale health scores of MSPSHE and their primary employment responsibility (Lambda (10.2)=2.3,p>.05. This study provides the first research available concerning the health behaviors of health educators in Mississippi. An implication to be drawn is that MSPSHE are attempting to improve the health of their students by not merely lecturing health information, but by practicing health-promoting lifestyles and modeling healthy behaviors as well.Keyword(s): advocacy, health promotion, high school issues