New York (CNN) -- Miss USA Rima Fakih is a Muslim with Lebanese heritage, but her family is "not defined by religion," Fakih said. 

"I'm an American girl," Fakih said. "And just to be clear, my family comes from many different backgrounds and religions." 

The newest Miss USA, crowned last weekend, was interviewed Wednesday for HLN's "The Joy Behar Show." 

Fakih downplayed the significance of photographs that emerged online this week showing her dancing against a stripper's pole. 

"Everyone took them as if I was stripping, which to be honest with you was just a competition," she said. "It was more of an event held by a radio station." 

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The Detroit, Michigan, radio station promotion held three years ago was like a class to help women "learn how to dance and feel sexy," she told Behar. 

The photos show her dancing in short pants. 

"To be extra funny, because I'm known to be silly, I put money in my bra," she said. 

The controversy, however, has made her name a top search term on the internet, she said. 

"Yeah, I'm the number one person on Yahoo or Google, I heard," she said. 

Cheesecake photos helped last year's Miss USA runner-up, Carrie Prejean, become well known, but she was eventually stripped of her Miss California crown when racier images emerged. 

Behar asked Fakih if there were any such photos of her that might eventually surface. 

"Nothing at all," she said. "I've always been known to be very respectful to my family and my reputation."  QUESTIONS:

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