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"She's Our Ideal" - Not Photos

Some beauty queens wear the crown lightly and parlay their titles into lucrative careers. And others keep making headlines, for all the wrong reasons. Who can forget Tara Connor and the Donald? Or Carrie Prejean?

Keep clicking for a look at some of the scrapes beauty queens have gotten into after the pageant is over - and sometimes even before that.

(Photo: CBS)

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