Just when many people
felt they had already seen enough of Miss California, Carrie
Prejean, a topless photo of the beauty pageant
contestant and National Organization for Marriage spokeswoman
surfaced late on Monday night.
The photo, which first
appeared on
TheDirty.com
, is allegedly one of six that exist of the 21-year-old
Prejean, who came in first runner-up at the Miss USA pageant on
April 18 after expressing her opposition to marriage equality
onstage in Las Vegas. Insiders say the other five photos may be
revealed soon.
"I can assure you
they were quite inappropriate and certainly not photos
befitting a beauty queen," Alicia Jacobs, a reporter for
KVBC-TV in Las Vegas, told NBC's
Today
show on Tuesday morning.
Jacobs, who judged the
Miss USA pageant, believes that the photos were taken after
Prejean's recent breast-augmentation surgery. However, in a
statement issued overnight, Prejean claims the photos were
taken when she was 17.
"I am a Christian,
and I am a model," Prejean said. "Models pose for pictures
including lingerie and swimwear photos. Recently, photos taken
of me as a teenager have been released surreptitiously to a
tabloid website that openly mocks me for my Christian faith. I
am not perfect, and I will never claim to be."
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