LaToya Woods, Miss Trinidad & Tobago 2010. (Miss Universe Organization)
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Here are the sexy photos that have caused a world of controversy for the Miss Universe pageant.
The beauty contest has been rapped for having its contestants strip down — with some even doffing their bikini tops — for a series of racy photos that feature them wearing little more than decorative body paint.
“It’s alarming that this has been turned into a Playboy-esque masquer ade,” Angie Meyer, a former pageant- organization worker, complained to Fox News. “By implementing topless photos as part of the pageant process, they’re putting applicants in an ex tremely compromising position.”
The pageant, co-run by the Trump Organization and NBC, decided that this year it would have the women participate in the Las Vegas photo session to promote the pageant, which will air live on the network on Aug. 23.
Among the queens who bared it for the camera were LaToya Woods of Trinidad and Tobago, Rima Fakih of the United States and Albania’s Angela Martini and Ireland’s Rozanna Purcell.
“The contestants who compete at Miss Universe are diverse, as they represent more than 82 countries around the globe. Many of their cultures embrace nudity,” said a pageant representative.
The contestants were allowed to choose how much skin they wanted to show.