Role Model

Cheerleading Controversy Sidelines Coach

Imagine you looked like this... Height: 5′2″ Weight: 105 Hair: brown Eye Color: hazel Maybe you were the prettiest girl in your school... A cheerleader... Very popular... And everyone said you should be a model... So you got your own page on a website showcasing models, which got you a a few small jobs, like this catalog...

You became more widely noticed, and that got you some more jobs... And photographers telling you how beautiful you were encouraged you to be more seductive...

And that attracted the attention of a higher paying opportunity with people always on the lookout for knockouts from next door: Playboy...

That's nice... but not enough to pay the bills.

After the shoot but before her selection as a Playboy Cyber Girl, Carlie Beck took a job as a high school cheerleading coach. Everything went smoothly until one of her cheerleaders, Adelle Geniella, got cut from the squad and barred from next year’s cheerleader tryouts for having more than three unexcused absences.

Adelle then took her mom to the principal's office at Casa Roble High School in Orangeville California. Armed with Coach Carlie's Playboy photos, they got revenge by getting the coach fired.

Adelle Geniella appeared live on TODAY Monday with her parents, Scott and Heather Geniella, to talk about the case that has a high school near Sacramento up in arms — and debating just what it means to be a role model. The family insisted it was a matter of morals and respect — not sour grapes — that led them to full dis-clothesure:



The cheerleading coach's dismissal has divided students at Casa Roble High School. 14-year-old Lorraine Spradling, who is on the cheerleading squad, says everyone knew about the pictures.

"It's none of our business what she does in her personal life!" Spradling told INSIDE EDITION.

Beck claims she was honest about her past with school officials, and says her story comes with a warning: "It's important to know that anything you put on the internet will be there for the rest of your life."

Carlie Beck says she now plans to pursue a career in modeling.

Photos: From Model Mayhem portfolio.
Video: NBC Today Show, April 20th.