Another Miss USA is resigning - this time, for very legitimate reasons.

Ashley Harder, Miss New Jersey USA, has resigned because she is pregnant, The Philadelphia Daily News reported. Harder said she's expecting her child in "late summer" and plans to marry her live-in boyfriend.

Ashley Harder, 20, told the newspaper she voluntarily stepped down because it's against pageant rules to compete while pregnant, Associated Press reports.

Erin Abrahamson, 23, would be assuming the Miss New Jersey USA title.

"Whatever made her resign, I wish her lots of luck and hope she's OK," Abrahamson said.

 

Miss USA contest, owned by real estate mogul Donald Trump, has suffered some beating recently.

Miss Nevada USA Katie Rees was stripped of her title after racy photos of her appeared on the Internet. Miss USA Tara Conner, who was caught drinking in New York bars when she was still underage, was allowed to keep her tiara after she agreed to go into rehab and undergo drug testing. 

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