Miss USA -- Not All Topless Photos Are Equal

There's another reigning beauty queen who took some very topless photos before she won her pageant -- but unlike Carrie Prejean, Miss Rhode Island USA's crown was never ever in jeopardy.



According to Alysha Castonguay, she dropped her top for a Maxim magazine shoot and a few swimsuit calenders way before her competition -- but there was no controversy over the pics because they were all seen and approved by the Miss USA pageant officials.

But Alysha tells TMZ she feels for Miss Cali saying, "I personally believe this situation is stemming from the controversy over her opinion and not a photo."

The final decision on dethroning Carrie Prejean is still being deliberated by the Miss USA and Miss California officials.



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1. Yeh because she's not extreme left liberal, she deserves this much criticism, I'm fair but seriously, it's the truth, just like Pelosi "Not knowing anything about the torture briefings", I mean, when can people bring common sense back to American? Stop being so partisan and use your brain.

Posted at 3:15AM on May 9th 2009 by Adultswim

2. Ah,, once again the radical homosexual agenda of bigotry, hate, discrimination, intolerance, mean spiritedness, Christian bashing and homosexist heterophobia rears its ugly, bigoted head against Prejean.

Posted at 3:23AM on May 9th 2009 by HeteroDefenseLeague

3. Nice!

Hey, maybe it should be required that all contestants do these kind of soft-core shots. Kind of Sports-Illustrated level.
But they're not revealed until later. Kind of a tease.
It's like it'd be this big complicated internet-based tease game.
like...find the panty shot.

What's wrong with that? Better than just having them walk naked right off the bat.

Posted at 3:48AM on May 9th 2009 by BornInTheUSA

4. The difference is that Carrie Prejean is a dumb bitch who showed her titties and lied about it. Alysha Castonguay showed her titties, but didn't lie about it. So Alysha has honest titties and Carrie don't.

Posted at 3:51AM on May 9th 2009 by Power Lesbian

5. We’re all born naked, What's the fuss?

Posted at 3:52AM on May 9th 2009 by XXX

6. Does nobody see the problem of a 17 year old, read: UNDERAGE girl posing topless? That's what Miss Prejean did.
Who gets off on provocative pics of underage children? Pedophiles!
Who belongs to a church that says homosexuality and pedophilia are connected?
Miss Prejean!
Who's aiding and abetting pedophiles?
Miss Prejean!

Posted at 3:56AM on May 9th 2009 by overdue

7. Very nice pics- both of these ladies are very hot... 2 states down... just 48 to go! :)

(Btw #4- Carrie was 18 when her pics were taken, not 17. I know Carrie has claimed otherwise however It has been proven many times this past week that she was 18)

Posted at 4:28AM on May 9th 2009 by Amazing

8. i mean, if it were women raking in all the cash for the magazines and as photographers for all these ladies topless photos, i'd be cool with them. but they are not. it's all men who make a fat crotch livin off naked ladies. AND NAKED MEN!! what's up with that?? give us back our bodies your perv suckers!

Posted at 5:01AM on May 9th 2009 by i swear, Y2K is soooooooooo coming...:D!!

9. I agree with her in that this is not about the photos it´s all about her opinion on gay marriage. I do not agree with Prejeans opinion but just like I expect people to respect my opinion I have to respect hers.
This has all been blown way out of porportion and it is a shame to see the bullying going on regarding Prejean, escpecially from Perez, he wants understanding ad respect towards gay people but he can not show respect and understanding himself and acts like a big bully.

Posted at 5:45AM on May 19th 2009 by Aggie

10. so sexy,Noman wanna live away from her

Posted at 5:10AM on May 9th 2009 by sorrow

11. Miss California's detractors include a large number of heterophobes. Donald Trump should be shamed into (1) firing Perez Hilton as a judge, and (2) firing his California pageant officials.

An obvious heterophobe has no business judging a pageant composed of persons of the opposite sex. Raging heterophobes can, if they wish to judge beauty contests, judge contestants of their own sex. Otherwise, they are tempted to destroy one of more contestants, as is happening to this poor young woman who simply answered a question truthfully.

Her answer? I don't agree with it either, but that's not the point. She does not deserve the public humiliations she has been receiving.

All those people who supported Hillary Clinton's cries of "sexism, sexism..."Where did they go, and why aren't they assailing Miss California's detractors for sexism for that and heterophobia is what this is all the fuss about Miss California is about.

Posted at 5:24AM on May 9th 2009 by sailhardy

12. Overdue, you know nothing about pedophiles if you think they're turned on by pictures of topless 17-year-olds. You also know nothing about 17-year-olds.

Women do not instantaneously change from helpless vulnerable child to adults in full control of their destiny at midnight on their 18th birthday.

And finally: nudity alone is not pornography. It's all about context.

Posted at 6:18AM on May 9th 2009 by EWAdams

13. Used to read Perez all the time. No more. This girl answered HER opinion and is getting destroyed for it. This is bogus.
Where are gays to stand up against this kind of crap?

Posted at 7:25AM on May 9th 2009 by drgirl

14. Any way, a pretty woman on the picture.

Posted at 8:17AM on May 9th 2009 by sheffie

15. Miss California is still a discriminator.

shes a bigot.

she spoke her mind and it happened to be bigotted.

her being honest doesn't change the fact that what he honest opinion spoke was demeaning to a large group of people.

If you want to use the bible as a loop hole you can't do that either because the bible was used for oppressing women for centuries. The whole lesser than due to coming from adams rib. The bible has always been used for good as well as bad, this is just another one of the bad situations.

Her opinion was no different than saying black people adeserve less because their skin isn't white or jewish people deserved the holocaust etc etc. You are still stripping someone of their most important right, freedom....

Gay people are no different than straight people but I guess the human race is going to make a fool of itself again and make them suffer for a while and then eventually give them the same rights all the other minority groups had to fight for.

Posted at 8:15AM on May 9th 2009 by wow

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