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On the heels of the racy Miss U.S.A. lingerie photos, which displayed the pageant contestants dressed up in bras, panties, fishnets and stilettos while writhing on beds and giving the cameras their best smoky-eyeliner come-hither stares, Donald Trump has outdone himself.This time, several Miss Universe contestants -- including good ol' Miss U.S.A. -- have opted to go topless for an official photo campaign, wearing only bikini bottoms and body paint.
"You know that saying, 'Bad publicity is good publicity?' It's going to be good," Miss Trinidad & Tobago, LaToya Woods, tells Access Hollywood.The women were not required to remove their tops, and several chose to keep their breasts covered by their swimsuits. Woods, pictured above, went for the bare look.
"We were all asked what we feel comfortable with and I told them that I feel comfortable with beauty, Rima Fakih, also known as Miss U.S.A., says. She opted to take her top off but turn her back to the camera. "I'm Arab, I'm Muslim, and I didn't want to disappoint many people," she says.
And to think, in New Zealand, women are stripped of their crowns if they dye their hair.
This particular stunt may have backfired. We're so used to the Miss Universe contest having one "shocking" event after another that we're almost bored by these photos. This may be the least interesting pageant scandal we've seen yet.
Next year, if they really want to blow our minds, all the beauty queens should remain fully dressed, politically correct, and articulate. Now that would be a shock.
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Good bye Miss Universe... This is not the 80's or the 90's anymore where women were at their utmost liberation and freedom to choose their destiny. Now, the "devil's advocate" replaces the Miss Universe title in the 2010's and the worse is yet to come. We disguise it all by stating that it is art, but just wait and see in the future... "familiarity causes disrespect." This is an old say and this incident is a true example of it. These girls are not models for artists, they're beauty pageant titleholders who should promote all the positiveness in any given society. They should represent the world... Is this the image of women that we want our baby girls today to mug up until they get older? Finally, the Miss Universe pageant has lost relevance, and we can only say, as in the word's of Miss USA Rima Fakih, "this is not your grandma's pageant." Oh people, where are we heading to?!!
A good portion of the world is completely comfortable with topless sunbathing. It is not "shocking" everywhere people.
I gues they're "Hoaring" out beauty pageants now and yet the main guy running this show, that dweeb Donald Trump, thinks this will have HUGE ratings. What a bonehead and hope this flops!
I WANT MORE MISS GUATEMALA, PLEASE!!!
Barbaric for the traditional....Art for the positivists
miss mexico is sizzling hot........
Oh get over yourself, CG - this is a Beauty Contest, not a Rhodes Scholarship ! Thankfully we are moving back to the original premise, and away from those ridiculous years when the girls were all Phds, vowing to change the world.