By Robin Leach (contact)
Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012 | 2:31 p.m.
2012 Miss Universe Pageant contestants at Michael Boychuck’s salon Color in Caesars Palace on Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012.
The 89 gorgeous glamour girls competing in the 2012 Miss Universe Pageant here are thrilled with their new provocative pinup portraits, and in advance of this weekend’s release, they are defending and deflecting any controversy.
Vegas DeLuxe has an advance look at Fadil Berisha’s bedroom lingerie shot of 19-year-old Miss Lithuania Greta Mikalauskyte. We’ll post more shots when his editing is completed. Fadil is no stranger to controversy over his edgy and provocative photos; he was at the center of a Miss USA firestorm here three years ago when critics lambasted his photos as too sexy.
2012 Miss Lithuania Greta Mikalauskyte.
“The new photos are sexy, classy and tasteful. It’s hotter and more elegant than you’ll see in the Victoria’s Secrets catalog. The photos are all themed to lingerie. We were nervous, but he made it very easy and comfortable” several contestants told me Tuesday night at Michael Boychuck’s salon Color in Caesars Palace.
“We asked every one of them if they were comfortable with the photos and if they would get any kind of negative reaction back in their homelands. Every one was completely OK with the shoots and very proud of the results. They loved their glamour looks. These are beautiful, healthy, smart, very fit young women -- and you’re seeing them exactly the way they’d be in swimwear at the beach.”
Contributing photographer Tom Donoghue was on duty for the Miss Universe contestants and the Miss Nevada hopefuls at Color; our thanks for his incredible photo gallery.
Country/Territory Contestant Age Height Hometown
Albania Adrola Dushi[4] 19 1.79 m (5 ft 10 1⁄2 in) Rreshen
Angola Marcelina Vahekeni[5] 21 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) Ondjiva
Argentina Camila Solórzano Ayusa[6] 23 1.79 m (5 ft 10 1⁄2 in) Tucumán
Aruba Liza Nerelyn Helder[7] 22 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Oranjestad
Australia Renae Ayris[8] 20 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Perth
Bahamas Celeste Marshall[9] 19 1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) Nassau
Belgium Laura Beyne[10] 19 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) Brussels
Bolivia Yéssica Mouton Gianella[11] 24 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) Santa Cruz
Botswana Sheillah Molelekwa[12] 22 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Gaborone
Brazil Gabriela Markus[13] 24 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Teutônia
British Virgin Islands Abigail Hyndman[14] 22 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Road Town
Bulgaria Zhana Yaneva[15] 23 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Blagoevgrad
Canada Adwoa Yamoah[16] 23 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Calgary
Cayman Islands Lindsay Katarina Japal[17] 24 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Georgetown
Chile Ana Luisa König[18] 22 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Santiago
China Diana Xu Jidan[19] 22 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Shanghai
Colombia Daniella Álvarez[20] 24 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Barranquilla
Costa Rica Nazareth Cascante[21] 22 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Alajuela
Croatia Elizabeta Burg[22] 19 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Vrbanja
Curaçao Monifa Jansen[23] 19 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) Willemstad
Cyprus Ioánna Yiannakoú[24] 20 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) Paphos
Czech Republic Tereza Chlebovská[25] 21 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Třemešné
Denmark Josefine Hewitt[26] 19 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Esbjerg
Dominican Republic Dulcita Lynn Lieggi[27] 23 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) Santo Domingo
Ecuador Carolina Aguirre[28] 20 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Guayaquil
El Salvador Ana Yancy Clavel[29] 20 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) San Salvador
Estonia Natalie Korneitsik[30] 23 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Harjumaa
Ethiopia Helen Getachew[31] 22 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Addis Ababa
Finland Sara Yasmina Chafak[32] 22 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) Helsinki
France Marie Payet[33] 20 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Réunion
Gabon Channa Divouvi[34] 21 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Libreville
Georgia Tamar Shedania[35] 20 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Tbilisi
Germany Alicia Endemann[36] 23 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Hamburg
Ghana Gifty Ofori[37] 24 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Accra
Great Britain Holly Hale[38] 22 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Cardiff
Greece Vasiliki Tsirogianni[39] 24 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Thessaloniki
Guam Alyssa Cruz Aguero[40] 24 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Barrigada
Guatemala Laura Godoy[41] 23 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) Guatemala City
Guyana Ruqayyah Boyer[42] 20 1.79 m (5 ft 10 1⁄2 in) Linden
Haiti Christela Jacques[43] 22 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Port-au-Prince
Honduras Jennifer Denise Andrade[44] 24 1.57 m (5 ft 2 in) Tegucigalpa
Hungary Agnes Konkoly[45] 25 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) Budapest
India Shilpa Singh[46] 23 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) Mumbai
Indonesia Maria Selena Nurcahya[47] 22 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Semarang
Ireland Adrienne Murphy 22 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Dublin
Israel Lina Makhuli[48] 19 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Haifa
Italy Grazia Maria Pinto[49] 24 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Catania
Jamaica Chantal Zaky[50] 24 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Port Antonio
Japan Ayako Hara[51] 24 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) Sendai
Korea Lee Sung-hye [52] 24 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) Seoul
Kosovo Diana Avdiu [53] 19 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) Prishtina
Lebanon Rina Chibany[54] 21 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Beirut
Lithuania Greta Mikalauskyte [55] 19 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) Šiauliai
Malaysia Kimberley Leggett[56] 19 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Penang
Mauritius Ameeksha Devi Dilchand[57] 26 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) Curepipe
Mexico Karina González[58] 21 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Aguascalientes City
Montenegro Andrea Radonjic[59] 20 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Podgorica
Namibia Tsakana Nkandih[60] 22 1.79 m (5 ft 10 1⁄2 in) Windhoek
Netherlands Nathalie den Dekker[61] 22 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) Amsterdam
New Zealand Talia Bennett[62] 24 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) North Harbour
Nicaragua Farah Eslaquit[63] 21 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Masaya
Nigeria Isabella Agbor Ayuk[64] 26 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Calabar
Norway Sara Nicole Andersen[65] 20 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) Oslo
Panama Stephanie Vander Werf[66] 26 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Panama City
Paraguay Egni Eckert[67] 25 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) Luque
Peru Nicole Faverón[68] 24 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) Iquitos
Philippines Janine Mari Tugonon[69] 23 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Balanga City
Poland Marcelina Zawadzka[70] 22 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Malbork
Puerto Rico Bodine Koehler Peña[71] 20 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) San Juan
Romania Delia Monica Duca[72] 26 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Bucharest
Russia Elizaveta Golovanova[73] 19 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Smolensk
Serbia Branislava Mandic[74] 21 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Čurug
Singapore Lynn Tan[75] 24 1.71 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) Singapore
Slovak Republic Ľubica Štepanová[76] 24 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Prievidza
South Africa Melinda Bam[77] 24 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) Pretoria
Spain Andrea Huisgen[78] 22 1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) Barcelona
Sri Lanka Sabrina Herft[79] 25 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Colombo
St. Lucia Tara Carla Edward[80] 24 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Gros Islet
Sweden Hanni Beronius[81] 22 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) Gothenburg
Switzerland Alina Buchschacher[82] 21 1.71 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) Bern
Tanzania Winfrida Dominic[83] 19 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Dar es Salaam
Thailand Nutpimon Natthayalak[84] 19 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Krabi
Trinidad & Tobago Avionne Mark[85] 22 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) San Juan
Turkey Çağıl Özge Özkul[86] 24 1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) Ankara
Ukraine Anastasia Chernova[87] 20 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Kharkiv
Uruguay Camila Vezzoso [88] 19 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) Artigas
USA Olivia Culpo[89] 20 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) Cranston
Venezuela Irene Esser[90] 20 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Río Caribe
Vietnam Luu Thi Diem Huong[91] 22 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Ho Chi Minh City
source: lasvegassun , wikipedia
