Photo Of Miss New York USA Is Kind Of...Creepy

Uhhh...via Miss NY USA's Facebook page

Tonight, the Miss ~~America~~ USA pageant will wrap up and we'll finally know who we'll be sending locks of our hair and mixtapes with Dashboard songs to. Time to take a look at Amber Marie Collins, AKA Miss New York USA's photo reel. She just graduated from NYU Steinhardt and "teaches an ASD preschool class at The Gramercy School." Lets see, standard gown picture? Check. Bikini shots? Check. Same practiced smile in all the photos? Double check. GAH! What. Is. This?

No explanation is offered on her Facebook page as to whether or not she was on the set of Brian De Palma's remake of The Glass Menagerie. And although we have to give her credit for breaking the mold of standard drab beauty pageant photos, who designed this dress made of Pogs? And why did the photographer ask her to give him the "Ash from Alien" face?

Perhaps more importantly, why does her Facebook profile say she's from Los Angeles, California? What is the Miss USA pageant hiding? Who can we meet in an abandoned parking garage to get some answers? While we figure this out, enjoy the greatest beauty pageant moment of all time, courtesy of the Palmetto state.

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By Christopher Robbins in News on June 19, 2011 2:50 PM

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cheese101

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hc792

Slow news day? Because this attempt at an article is pathetic.

edgie168

She is not that good looking at all.

Miles Bader

Beauty pageant winners rarely are, for whatever reason.

I guess the main thing is, the truly beautiful don't tend to enter beauty pageants...

robingee

It's not the usual Pageant Shot I guess, and she's got the Duuuuh model-look on her face instead of the Scared to Death Girl Next Door frozen smile they all try to have at these pageant things. Such as.

SonnyBobiche

That's a typical fashion shot. You'll find hundreds like those in any newsstand.

Mordicai

What? I mean, not that it is a great photo, but it is pretty much just some editorial looking shot. How is that creepy?

Barbara Starkweather

Agreed. She doesn't look any more garish than, say, Christina Aguilera, or the hauteur fashion models one sees in Vogue, and I think she actually looks more human than some of those characters.