Miss USA Susie Castillo teamed up with Maxim magazine recently for an interview and photo shoot.

The best part about beauty pageants is all the scandals. Any nuttiness when you won Miss USA?
No, unfortunately. That would have made it a lot more interesting. I was never a pageant girl. I didn't grow up doing pageants, and I don't ever want to compete in pageants again. I did them to get exposure and a good agent because I wanted to work as a host and an actor. And it worked for me. I didn't want to wear a crown on my head.

What were some of the stranger aspects of the pageant circuit?
There are pageant message boards on which girls rip each other to shreds. They criticize the weirdest things, like your knees. They talked about my jaw line and called my curly hair "kinky." It's a bizarre world.