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Carrie Prejean -- I Was Only 17!

Posted May 5th 2009 5:17PM by TMZ Staff

Carrie PrejeanSo someone sent us pictures two days ago of Carrie Prejean -- showing the Miss California/Miss USA runner-up modeling topless, partially covering her breasts with her hands and wearing panties. So, we ask, What would Jesus think?

We contacted Carrie's rep, who gave us this statement yesterday: "This was a photo that was taken several years ago, when Carrie first started modeling. In her naivete, an agent convinced her to pose for this photo to submit to a lingerie company, claiming they could make her the next Victoria's Secret model. She has since learned what a lie that was, and what a mistake it was to have the photo taken."

A short time later, we got a second statement: "Is there any allowance for the fact that she was a minor when the photo was taken, that would allow you not to post? She was only 17."

We had our doubts ... especially when comparing the photos to photos of Carrie at the Miss California Teen USA pageant in 2004, a few months before her 18th birthday. But we just got a handwritten statement from Carrie herself, and she's towing the line: "The photo in question was taken when I was a minor, several months before the 2005 pageant. The photo was not meant for disclosure to the general public."

Carrie PrejeanA honcho at Miss California USA told us Carrie may have violated her contract, because she represented several times in writing that she never posed nude or partially nude for any photo. We're here to tell you ... that's not true.

We haven't posted the pics and won't unless we know she was over 18.

Tags: carrie prejean, CarriePrejean, miss california, miss usa, MissCalifornia, MissUsa, pageant, photos, topless

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46. The pageant rules stated "no nude or semi-nude photos". I don't care how you slice it; she's semi-nude. Looks like the crown's coming off....

Oh, and by the way - nice ass.

Posted at 5:56PM on May 5th 2009 by Abracadabra

47. what a bunch of hetrophobes.. hypocrites.. you are what you hate.

Posted at 11:05AM on May 10th 2009 by Amphere

48. She claims that she was 17 when the pictures were taken; that should be easy to prove or disprove. Produce the signed and dated photo release. I haven't seen the pictures but if they were sexual in nature was a 2257 filled out? If so porduce it. Do the pictures border on pornography? If so and she was underage are there any charges pending? Inquiring minds want to know.

Posted at 8:55PM on May 5th 2009 by Geo McG

49. A person does not have to be religious or homophobic to be against gay "marriage". It's structure and stability at stake. I personally think the polygamists and child/love advocates will have arguments to support eliminating all guidelines to what constitutes "marriage". Why are limits/guidelines to human behavior so despised in this current cultural climate? Juno was cool and gay marriage is hip. Next will be "tolerance" for the child molester. Why not? We can't make judgments any more about behaviors......

Posted at 6:00PM on May 5th 2009 by grandma

50.
Okay folks, I have a 17, nearly 18 year old and a 13 nearly 14 year old pair of daughters. We are not bible thumpers despite living in the bible belt. Now the way I see it is this:
1. This is a free country with freedom of speech and Carrie is entitled to her opinion no matter what any of us think. Even the KKK is entitled to their opinion, again no matter what any of us think about it one way or another. I feel strongly that the shove it down your throat gay activists, as opposed to those who are more civilized about their activism, are jumping on this statement that she was entitled to give constitutionally and making a mountain out of a molehill. Really, people, are we so rigid and intolerant that we can't react by saying "okay, she feels that way, so what? I may feel differently but then again, so what?" If you read her whole statement then only the touchy wanting to cause trouble types would be offended. She even said that she didn't intend to offend. Honestly, with all that is going on in the world in our lives at the moment, this is extremely petty.
2. I have seen the so called nude photo and, I say so-called for a reason. It shows nothing other than a typical shot, seen countless times with countless girls, a young woman with a beautiful body in a pair of pink undies turned away from you covering her breasts with her arms. Actually, I feel that the celebrity chef beauty in the Hardee's commercial is far more suggestive than this photo by today's standards. My dauthters agree. I am not going to judge this young woman because it is not my, nor anyone else's, place to do so. I know that my daughters' both get regular come-on mail for modeling, acting and padgents. We take none of seriously but some young girls do when they are mesmerized by the thoughts of fame and riches. They are naive. My oldest wants to act but is going into college under a double major- both drama and pre-med. She loves them both but acting is a siren song. Some young girls, and at 17 a female is a girl not a woman, are naive and make bad judgement calls. ANY young girl can get caught up in these schemes despite coming from good homes. Just do a google search and you will see the lawsuits and arrests. Many of these photographers are actually peodephiles (sp) in disguise...just look it up.
3. In the end, any person is not just one facet, we are very complicated creatures and everyone has skeletons in their closets.You, everyone. I would submit that before the reporters or the gay activists that are throwing stones at Miss. Prejean, be required to be honest enough that they air their own dirty linens in public prior to allowing their right of free speech to override anyone elses. Who do they think that they are by giving themselves a higher standard of rights than those they choose to talk about and target? The last time I sat in a law school classroom everyone had the same set of rights, period. So, why can't we respect that? Let's all stop trying to one-up one another and just live and let live. That is one of the biggest problems that I see in the world today, in every culture and every country, we have all become busy bodies with the speedy dissemination of information world wide of which 90% is highly innacurate. Come on folks, let's look at the bigger picture and solve something that really matters, hmmm?

Posted at 6:24PM on May 5th 2009 by Mom

51. What is hypocritical is to express outrage at photos of this woman in panties covering her breasts. There are pictures like that in magazines on racks at every news stand and grocery store. And all of this phoney outrage is because she expressed Barak Obama's position on gay marriage?

Posted at 5:58PM on May 5th 2009 by craig

52. The reason everyone is opposed to this chick is that she's a hypocrite.

Posted at 5:59PM on May 5th 2009 by Stella Cadente

53. People are so quick to judge this girl, and most Christians for that matter, because they disagree with her views they throw any logic and reasoning out the window. several quick points.
1) Just because someone says they are a christian does not mean they are perfect. The whole point of Christianity is that NOBODY is perfect and EVERYBODY sins, but that God and Jesus offer forgiveness. Every time people want to denigrate someone who is a christian they find some mistake they have made and call them a hypocrite for not following the word of the Bible, or for picking and choosing what parts they want to follow. But again Christians do not pretend to be perfect and sin free, they simply follow the word of God as a guideline on how to live a moral life.
2) Calling a her a hypocrite for posing topless while being against abortion for religious beliefs is simply laughable. I would imagine that everyone here would consider both lying and murder immoral and unethical acts. So if someone professes that they are against murder, but soon after they are caught in a lie, are they now a hypocrite? They are both immoral acts, as she believes abortion and posing topless are. As if she is a hypocrite for posing topless while being against abortion, than anyone who tells a lie and is against murder is just as much of one.
3) Aren't the real hypocrites the ones who lash out at and judge Christians for their beliefs? They complain about Christians being judgmental and holier than thou, and then judge them and think they are better than them because of it. is that not hypocrisy?

Posted at 6:02PM on May 5th 2009 by Ron

54. Just because she spoke her mind now everyone is hating on her. What's happened to free speech??

Posted at 6:28PM on May 5th 2009 by Tera

55. Sorry, Carrie, but even at seventeen I knew better than to have pictures like that taken. I know this because there aren't any. Unless you're completely brainless, you knew what you were doing. Youthful recklessness is understandable, but not an excuse.

Instead of crying foul you should have the courage of your convictions. You're old enough to know better than to speak without thinking, but you didn't. You made a statement you now say you believe. If you had thought about it you would have realized that your words would be painful to some, and that you would be starting a firestorm. With you in the heart of it. While I disagree with your stand, I believe you have the right to your opinions. Now have the courage to face the path you have set yourself on.

Posted at 6:04PM on May 5th 2009 by Baycat57

56. There will be no limit to the amount of effort to dig up dirt because of the message it sends.

On the other hand, if the other side wants to fire back, anyone who downloaded or looked at the pictures in question is guilty of kiddie porn. She may get her title taken away, but the attackers had better get a great disk wiper so when the vice squad comes calling to sieze their computer, they can avoid a vacation courtesy of the feds.

And thank goodness there are all of these women's organizations who are representing the feminine half of the population and sticking up for Carrie. If they didn't, they should abandon their false direction and support something they believe in -- like okd Corvettes or something.

Posted at 6:23PM on May 5th 2009 by Tom Mariner

57. Typical hypocrisy from the rabid left wing whacko wingnuts. All the hate mongering, heterophobic, Christian bashing bigoted homophile bullies spewing their homosexist, Chrisitan phobic intolerant, narrow minded, hate spew is typical of homophiles who are following Kirk and Madsens psychological propaganda Homosexual Agenda manifesto called "Overhauling Straight America" (Google it, Chrisitanphobe) hat schemes homophiles to "vilify" all opposition using scripted epithets via a psychological tactic called "jamming".

You hate mongering, Christian bashing, homosexist, heterophobic, intolerant, wrong headed, discriminating, heterosexual equal rights denying bigoted homosexual hate mongerers need to stop your intolerance and hatred of Christians and heteosexuals that refuse to be bullied by your extremist intolerance, bigotry and hate of anyone and anything that does not follow your scripted agenda. We jsut want our equal rights, the right to be left alone, to not be bashed by you, to not have our parenbtal rights and our civil rights removed from us by you radical hate mongering homosexual Christian bashers that constantly try to deprive us of our civil and Constitutional rights that you cleverly cloak as "anti-discrimination" laws. Just like you homosexual pedophiles engaged in economic terrorism against parents who didn't want their underage boys attacked in pup tents, so you sued for access to Boy Scouts of American underage boys bodies by claiming you homosexual pedophiles were "discriminated against" exactly the same theme Kirk and Madsen instructed you to use, till eventually the Supreme Court said decided to protect the civil rights of parents and underage boys to exercise their freedom of association, including the freedom to not have their underage boys attacked by you hate mongering., child recruiting, child raping bigots, just like the homosexual murderous pedophile did to little Jeffery Curley. Oh, did the media suppress that tidbit to protect homosexuals? Shall we talk about how the homosexual pedophile murdered Jeffrey Curley for refusing to go along with being sodomized, so after the homosexual pedophile murdered him, he raped his corpse?

Prejean is a perfect example of how us heterosexuals need hate crime laws to protect our rights and to protect us from being bashed, bullied, threatened with violence and murdered by homosexual fascist hate mongering bigots, like Perez Hilton aka Lavanderia, who theatened Prejean which physical violence if she won. Typical fascist terrorist bigoted homosexual hate mongerer.

Posted at 6:05PM on May 5th 2009 by HeteroAntiDefamationLeague3

58. GO TO THEDIRTY..COM IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE PICTURE.... ALL I SEE IS A FAKE BOOB!!!

Posted at 6:11PM on May 5th 2009 by Mya Arnett

59. This is an outrage. Can you belive it. A woman in a bikini COVERING her breats....
MUST BE SLOW NEWS DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 6:07PM on May 5th 2009 by Alan

60. I hope she makes lots of money and smiles all the way to the bank.
Hopefully skipping while singing f*ck Perez Hilton the whole way.


She gave her opinion.
TOO freaking bad that some dont like it.

Posted at 6:09PM on May 5th 2009 by Cruise

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