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Another Thorn in Miss USA's Crown
Another one bites the dust.
Miss New Jersey USA Ashley Harder has resigned from presiding over ribbon-cutting ceremonies and other world-saving photo-ops to focus on a more challenging matter: motherhood.
The 20-year-old beauty queen has announced that she was expecting her first child with her 28-year-old boyfriend, snowboard entrepreneur Gregg D'Antonio.
"I was so excited I wanted to tell the world," she told the Philadelphia Inquirer. "It was so difficult for me to keep quiet."
Harder, who is nearly three months pregnant, said that she informed the Miss USA organizers right away of her bun-in-the-oven status so that they could prep New Jersey runner-up Erin Abrahamson for the Mar. 23 national pageant.
While Harder told the newspaper that she quit the pageant—as opposed to being fired—she didn't exactly have much of a choice. Competitors are forbidden from being pregnant, married or already a parent.
"Life happens," she told the Inquirer. "Initially, I was a tiny bit disappointed, I wouldn't be competing. But there was no comparing the two: Miss USA or a baby, a baby that had been sent to me by God."
Besides, she could always make a go of Mrs. USA.
Harder said she and D'Antonio already had plans in the works to tie the knot, although no date has been set.
The announcement makes Harder the third Miss USA player to hit the headlines in recent months.
To the chagrin of Rosie O'Donnell, pageant overlord Donald Trump decided to allow reigning Miss USA tiara-holder Tara Conner to keep her sash despite rampant reports that she had engaged in underage drinking, drug use and sexual behavior unbecoming a pageant winner. After conferring with an apologetic Conner, Trump announced she would go to rehab and keep her crown.
But the Donald apparently exhausted his supply of magnanimity. Days after rendering his decision on Conner, he declined to give Miss Nevada Katie Rees the same second chance.
Rees was stripped of her title after appearing stripped of her clothes in sexually explicit party photos, which quickly made the Internet rounds.
Don't cry for Rees, however. Last week, she signed a $2 million deal with Hard Rock Hotel & Casino's Beacher's Madhouse in Las Vegas, agreeing to host an "estrogen-heavy" variety show.
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