Dethroned Ms. Zimbabwe, Emily Kachote, on Monday said she may take legal action to protest against the unceremonious way she was stripped of her title.

Kachote, 25, was told last week she could no longer represent the country as Ms. Zimbabwe after several nude pictures of her emerged.

According to Zimbabwe media, pageant rules stipualte that all contestants taking part must have never posed naked — or at least not have the pics published.

“I’ve never posed for any nude or indecent picture in my life,” she wrote on her Facebook page on Monday, raising the prospect that she may have unwittingly been photographed in her very attractive “birthday suit”.