Miss Universe 2010 Topless Body-painting Photos

After some contestants posed topless for a promotional photo shoot, Fox411 said that Miss Universe has “sunk to a new low”.

“It’s alarming that this has been turned into a playboy-esque masquerade,” said Angie Meyer, who has worked closely with the Miss USA contestants.

“When you bring nudity into the equation, the pageant no longer becomes about the entire package of brains and beauty. Rather, the focus shifts to body image. The notion that ‘beauty’ embodies absolute physical perfection is a frightening slippery slope, and quite dangerous for young women around the world to adhere to.”

“By implementing topless photos as part of the pageant process, they’re putting applicants in an extremely compromising position,” she said.

LaToya Woods, a Miss Universe contestant from Trinidad & Tobago, said she felt particularly “liberated” during the shoot :

“They exaggerated the curves of my body; it was in no way derogatory. It was an artistic expression. It expressed liberty, freedom, sexuality. That is what Miss Universe is all about,” she told Pop Tarts.

Miss USA, Muslim-American Rima Fakih, told Access Hollywood that while she did indeed pose topless, the shots were only of her nude back.

“For me, I like to do the back,” she said.

“I didn’t want to do the front for many reasons, and one of them being in respect, I’m Arab, I’m Muslim, and I didn’t want to disappoint many people.”

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