Miss California Breast Implants Paid for by Pageant

Shanna Moakler, co-executive director of the Miss California Organization and a former Miss USA, confirmed that the group paid for Miss California Carrie Prejean’s breast implants, prior to her competing in Miss USA.

Nice perks.

When asked about it in an interview with Access Hollywood, Moakler said, defending the decision for the organization to pay for Prejean's implants:

“Yes, we did.

“Breast implants in pageants is not a rarity. It’s definitely not taboo. It’s very common. Breast implants today among young women today is very common. I don’t personally have them, but you know — they are."

Interesting, because it seems that while beauty pageants pretend to be all about inner and outer beauty, we can see from this it's all about outer beauty.

At the same time, Carrie Prejean seems to be making the most of her notoriety, which, as Miss USA runner-up, is based mostly on her stance against gay marriage. She announced Thursday she will star in an anti-gay marriage ad sponsored by the controversial National Organization for Marriage.

Miss USA pageant officials called Prejean an opportunist:

"In the entire history of the Miss USA, no reigning title holder has so readily committed her face and voice to a more divisive or polarizing issue.

"We are deeply saddened Carrie Prejean has forgotten her platform of the Special Olympics, her commitment to all Californians, and solidified her legacy as one that goes beyond the right to voice her beliefs and instead reveals her opportunistic agenda."

Opportunist or no, it's certainly striking how quickly she dropped her platform to pursue this, once the publicity became so great. After all, runner-up pretty much vanishes after the contest.