Miss Weston Loses Crown Over Porn Title
Beauty queen's racy past knocks her out of Miss Florida competition
Caroline Schwitzky says she was treated like no one should be after questions about her racy past came to light." />
Local beauty queen Caroline Schwitzky says she was treated like no one should be after questions about her racy past came to light.
A South Florida beauty queen is giving up her crown after questions about her racy past came to light this week.
Caroline Schwitzky was named Miss Weston back on Feb. 20, in just her second pageant ever, but less than a month later, the 21-year-old from Miami is stepping down from her throne.
That's because pageant officials discovered a YouTube video that shows Schwitzky accepting a different title: Miss Exxxotica New York at a 2008 porn convention.
And then there was the racy photoshoot for 305hiphop.com, where Schwitzky appeared with her chest covered in body paint.
Schwitzky says jealous pageant competitors found the online items and posted nasty things about her on Facebook and a message board. She says they incorrectly assumed that she was involved in porn.
"they were name-calling me, they were cyber-bullying, like 'she doesn't deserve it, de-crown her, she did Playboy, she did Exxxotica, how can she be a role model?'" Schwitzky said.
Schwitzky says the provocative photos are in the past.
"We all have dumb things in our life that we're not necessarily proud of," Schwitzky said, adding that she's now a born-again Christian.
Now Schwitzky claims the director of Miss Florida, Grant Gravitt, isn't buying it and told her so in a phone call.
"He said I was in the porn industry, he called me a whore and he also said he did not, quote unquote, he did not believe my religious B.S." she said.
Gravitt told NBC Miami that he never called Schwitzky any such names and said he thinks she's doing this to get her 15 minutes of fame.
"This is not for fame, this is standing up for the rights of how they treated me, and how unfair it was and how hostile he made it over the phone," she said.
After a follow-up meeting with representatives from Miss Florida, Schwitzky decided she no longer wanted to be Miss Weston, which also means she won't fill out the paperwork that their governing body, Miss Universe, would have used to determine if she broke the rules.
