Polumbo and Miss New Jersey officials had not been willing to disclose the content of the photos. But this morning, Polumbo ended the mystery by releasing the photos on NBC's Today show.
"I feel sick to my stomach. I really do," she said before showing photos that she had wanted to keep private, but acknowledged having posted on her Facebook site.
The pictures include one showing what Polumbo said was her boyfriend apparently biting her breast through her shirt, another of Polumbo in a limousine wearing jeans with her legs spread in the air and another of her in what appears to be a Halloween costume dress holding two small pumpkins up to her breasts.
"It's not in a ladylike manner. But I'm not a robot. I'm a human being," Polumbo said, in her second appearance on Today this week. She also noted that she is a theater major at college.
Although she conceded that the photos were embarrassing, she also described at least one as "playful."
The content of other photographs shown included Polumbo vamping, fully clothed, for the camera and her drinking an alcoholic beverage. She said that picture was taken last year and that she was of legal age to drink.
"I want to end this," Polumbo said, explaining why she was showing the photos. She also said other photos were surfacing that were being wrongly identified as being of her.
Last week, the 22-year-old Howell Township woman held a news conference and announced that someone was anonymously threatening to go public with personal photos of her if she didn't step down as Miss New Jersey by last Friday.
Before Polumbo's news conference, the photos had been received by the Miss America organization, which turned them over to Miss New Jersey officials, said local pageant board member Mark Soifer.
