Frivolous or just plain frisky? Melissa Berry heats up the 'Net with nude photo lawsuit

Screenshot of Melissa Jo Berry on Photobucket (yes, you can send it to your mobile)

With the Super Bowl just around the corner, there's a tiny little football story from another league that is stealing headlines on the Internet. Lingerie Football League (yes it's real) linebacker Melissa Jo Berry — who prances around in her underwear for a living — is suing ex-boyfriend Mark Dawson for posting nude photos of her on MySpace.

Melissa is on top of the Google Trends search report with a rating of "volcanic."

The Tampa Bay Tribune reported a few days ago that Melissa said her ex tried to extort, humiliate and hurt her by showing the photographs to her mother and and posting them on MySpace without her permission.

Mark saw things differently, of course. He told the Tribune that Melissa — who used to be a dancer at Miami strip club Thee Dollhouse — willingly posed for the photos.

This is nothing but an ex-girlfriend trying to cause problems. For her to say that these pictures were taken against her knowledge is untrue because she is smiling in them. She takes her clothes off for a living and tells people I am doing all this other stuff. What she's doing now is creating a drama because there are pictures out there of her."

Melissa says there's no way she took those shots knowing they'd be on the Internet. She told the Tribune:

If I wanted to take my clothes off for a living, that's what I would do. There's not a photographer that has ever taken those sorts of shots of me. It's more of a privacy thing. It's not for everyone else to see."

We're confused. She plays football in her underwear, dances at a strip club and models for a bikini company without the bikini (see below). Is it just us or is there something a little fishy here?

We're not saying she planned the whole thing or that they are cooperating in order to further her career. Oh no, we would never say that.

It's just that there have been plenty of cases of people being, you know, dumb like a fox about these things.

We're just saying.

BTW, we couldn't find the nude shots online. Nor could anyone else. But CollegeOTR has a whole gallery of her barely covered by a towel or smiling in her underwear and she has her own gallery at Tease Um (sexy swimwear manufacturer with super hot models). Here's one of those bikini shots where the bikini is basically just a prop:

Maybe we're crazy, but it looks like she does take off her clothes for a living.