Miss USA Promo Photos: Too Hot Or Just Right? (VIDEO, PHOTOS, POLL)

Update: Pageant owner Donald Trump has said he has "no problem with" the photos.

And former Miss USA Tara Conner, who admitted to drug and alcohol abuse in 2006, said she doesn't know why "everyone has their panties in a wad.

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And the president of the Miss Universe pageant spoke to the "Early Show," revealing that the Miss USA pageant was founded by a swimsuit company.

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May 10th:

The recently-released promo photos for next weekend's Miss USA Pageant have come under fire for being way too hot. The contestants posed in beds or perched on sofas while wearing lingerie or unbuttoned men's shirts, fishnets and stilettos.

FOXNews is wondering if these pictures are any racier than the images that got Miss California Carrie Prejean in trouble last year.

A representative for the pageant told Pop Tarts, "We work with an amazing photographer who we really consider to be more of an artist, we trust his creative and professional instinct....The final results of the photos speak for themselves. The photos are hot, yet tasteful."

Paula Miles, the state director for South Carolina, North Carolina and Louisiana, said two of the contestants called her after they arrived at the photo shoot:

"They happened to have gone up in the room and they saw what was taking place, and they called concerned, and my best advice to them was just to not compromise yourself," Miles told Pop Tarts. "They made sure their breasts were covered and that they weren't in provocative attire. They knew that their family was going to see these. They were concerned, knowing that they had to participate in order to be competitive."

Check out the photos (via TMZ) and let us know which are too steamy for the pageant.

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[gemzenith]

05:25 PM on 05/14/2010

Dad will not be watching this with wifey and kids.He'll want to be by himself in the den.

[MicheleCA]

02:26 PM on 05/14/2010

What's next? Behind the scenes with the judges video?

[Son of Sensi]

02:10 PM on 05/13/2010

I'm glad the pictures were taken as these women are gorgeous and scantily clad (a combo I'm a fan of) but I think it's very indicative of of our culture's shift toward "slutty=sexy". Again, great pics, but it would have been unthinkable even 10-15 years ago for the Miss America contestants to do an organized lingerie shoot.

We've lost the love for the girl next door...unless that girl is Pam Anderson.

[hopscotch4]

09:11 PM on 05/12/2010

We've been (TRUMPED). BORED

Sadly that was an amateurish WASTE of feminine pulchritude...... along with a great idea.

1).They all look the same!
2).Same BORING hair and make up.
3).Six DULL sets for 50 girls. (What's up with that?)
4).Tiresome wardrobe

Uncreative and untalented Photographer, Art director and Editor and Client.

/BORED limp

[Barbie and Ken forever]

03:49 AM on 05/15/2010

Agreed

[prettychicago]

05:56 PM on 05/19/2010

Actually, I disagree. As a makeup artist who works on editorials and campaigns, I understand that they were taken as a series. They look the same on purpose. The makeup and hair is gorgeous and many makeup artists would kill to have shots like that in their portfolios - it's not the type of work I do normally, but I think it's beautiful.

Could there have been a little more variation in the wardrobe and makeup/hair? Sure. Would they meet the criteria for the client if some were in color, others had little or no makeup? No. They wouldn't be a story. But appreciation of any image or advertising is in the eye of the beholder. So if you don't appreciate it, it's cool. But I don't think it's a waste.

[ATCall]

06:54 PM on 05/12/2010

These pictures seem carefully, media-consultant-placed to prepare anyone interested for the contestants nasty pictures waiting in the wings...

[prettychicago]

05:58 PM on 05/19/2010

You hit the nail on the head.

[SILSM]

02:05 PM on 05/12/2010

I think this is great. Once and for all the pageant organizer made it clear and beyond any doubt what the pageant is about. All the contestants are adults (in the legal sense) so they should be allowed to do/show whatever they want. Let's just do away with the facade that a beauty pageant is about anything else other than the objectification of female bodies. Are they finally doing away with the cringe-worthy Q&A and talent show sections now? This may be the best year yet!

[kamknauss]

03:01 PM on 05/19/2010

I couldn't agree more. Fanned and Faved.

[Roye Barber]

08:16 AM on 05/12/2010

Yes! Love it! I do not see what the fuss is about. America the prude

[elpaulo]

06:06 AM on 05/12/2010

Funny how people get upset at this, but, no righties (or lefties) have complained about Scott Brown posing for playgirl. ahhh, right. He is a man. Women pose like this, and its "its degrading!", men pose and its fine.

[fadi111]

03:45 AM on 05/12/2010

Are these pictures offensive? No, but they are about as unAmerican as Donald Trump. There should be no lingerie pics on the Miss USA website. Save it for Maxim magazine and Playboy please....

http://www.orgiraq.com/

[csuciadams]

03:16 AM on 05/12/2010

These women are sex symbols. It is great that they are smart and talented, but the pageant is won or lost on the woman's looks.

This is a great way to showcase as many different sides of that beauty as possible. I don't know how they are any different than a Maxim magazine. I think they are rather more tasteful in fact

[Barbie and Ken forever]

03:48 AM on 05/15/2010

I doubt many of them are smart

[Mister Biggles]

09:49 PM on 05/11/2010

Phenomenal.

[ARTIST50]

09:03 PM on 05/11/2010

I don't know - there's just something wrong when this is what we let our little girls aspire to. I remember how much I couldn't wait to watch beauty pageants. No matter what you do, young girls look at these women and think this is what they are suppose to be.

It just kind of gives me the creeps that this is where our society is going. Did I just dream that we had a womens lib movement?

[AuntieLola]

01:52 PM on 05/11/2010

The all look like valedictorians to me.

[Barbie and Ken forever]

03:48 AM on 05/15/2010

I hope you're joking

[prdamericanmom]

01:31 PM on 05/11/2010

It's a copy of the Victoria's Secret catalog, only one of those girls gets a crown at the end.

As for the Fox News ponderings, I'd have to say no. The Prejean pics showed more than these do, AND... These girls aren't saying that the Devil made them do it, or that the wind blew, etc., etc... Prejean is a hypocrite. Like the pictures or not, the pageant girls aren't trying to deny that they were taken.

[HolyKow]

01:16 PM on 05/11/2010

All of a sudden, a competition that bases itself on bathing suit and who can say 'World Peace' the most gets bad press for actually being what they are for once? A glorified soft-core porn show with people of moderate or less intelligence plying the only wares they have to pander to a male tongue wagging soceity.

I see this as finally getting some truth in advertising, nothing else.

HK

[zeppelingirl89]

05:06 AM on 05/12/2010

Amen to that.

[Barbie and Ken forever]

03:49 AM on 05/15/2010

LOL