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Why Calif. beauty queen got breast implants
May 4th, 2009, 6:58 am · 43 Comments · posted by Colin Stewart
See ‘Miss Calif. pre- and post-implants’ photos
PRE-PAGEANT UPLIFT
The sponsors of the Miss California USA pageant paid for breast implants for this year’s Miss California shortly before she competed in the Miss USA pageant (photo at right).
It’s a move that the vast majority of people would oppose, according to an informal survey of “In Your Face” readers last year. Only 21 percent said plastic surgery is OK for beauty pageant contestants. The remaining 79 percent said no.
Shanna Moakler, co-executive director of the Miss California USA group, confirmed it paid for breast implants for this year’s Miss California USA, Carrie Prejean.
“It was an option and she wanted it. And we supported that decision,” said previous Miss USA Shanna during an interview late last week with “Access Hollywood.” “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.”
Prejean previously was in the news because of her comments against gay marriage at the Miss USA pageant.
In an interview late last week on “The Early Show,” the other co-director of Miss California USA, Keith Lewis, said, “We assisted when Carrie came to us and voiced the interest in having the procedure done. … We want to put her in the best possible confidence in order to present herself in the best possible light on a national stage.”
In the interview with Maggie Rodriguez of “The Early Show,” Lewis said:
We would never encourage her to go that route, but…
RODRIGUEZ: But why not discourage her?
LEWIS: … it’s a personal choice. Well, I think that it’s about how a woman feels about herself. In terms of, for me, it’s not a personal choice that I would recommend. But at the same time, I know so many women that have done the procedure and feel better about themselves and the way they present themselves.
And I think that’s the question is, whether or not, when you’re looking at that procedure as an option, am I going to feel better about myself? It’s not about one night. It isn’t about one night of competition. And doing a procedure like that for one night of competition would be foolish. But…
RODRIGUEZ: But don’t the judges look at proportion when they’re judging the swimsuits? Wouldn’t she have a better chance of winning if she were more proportioned?
LEWIS: Well, of course she does. But there’s plenty of ways of getting to more proportion without doing breast implants.
RODRIGUEZ: Well, but if…
LEWIS: Many of the girls use chicken cutlets [bra inserts].
RODRIGUEZ: … if you have a flat chest, what are you supposed to do?
LEWIS: You use chicken cutlets. You use tape. You use anything that you can to enhance the line. There’s lots of tricks of the trade.
It’s just a matter of whether or not you want to go to that next level.
RODRIGUEZ: I wonder if you should change the rules and maybe not judge it so much on proportion.
LEWIS: Well, it’s a beauty pageant, and the swimsuit competition is part of that beauty pageant. So, I agree with you, I think that we have to look at the way that we perceive real women and whether that needs to be changed in the media.
But you see it in television. You see it in advertising. It may be part of this pageantry, as well. But I think it’s prevailing to everywhere, not just in one area.
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She got them to win of course. It was interesting that the pageant paid for them. I have not seen that before.
For 14 years, I have headed an international support group of women harmed by breast implants.
By early 2001, 234,187 had filed serious adverse reactions with the FDA. When several of us just tried to find the current numbers in the ensuing 8 years … it appears that Medwatch is now ‘batching’ them unless a death occured. We know that only a small percentage of actual adverse reactions get reported.
In reading this interview, it seemed to me that the Pageant officials were treating a serious scenario of implanting an often dangerous device such as breast implants much like a change of make-up color or adding a bow to a dress.
While true that many women are happy with their implants for a time … when they break or become encapsulated or incur infections, it is a serious and oft long lasting medical problem. Many women have numerous surgeries and replacing a broken implant leads to yet another invasive surgery. The high incidence of auto-immune diseases being triggered by implants is another potential long term complication.
Women often lose their insurance when they choose breast implants, and of course it is well known that breastfeeding post implants may be problematic on many levels.
While we wish her the best of health … the false belief that implants are the answer to image issues is mere promotion.
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I don’t have any issues with women getting implants. I take issue that the pageant actually paid for them. If a woman wants to do the adult thing and got under the knife, then she should do the adult thing and pay for them. I think she’s too young anyhow. Hopefully none of my taxpay money ends up for this fund. You never know with the crazy bailout money being dispensed.
I didn’t agree with what Prejean had to say re: gay marriage, but I was fine with her expressing her opinion on the matter. However, she then screwed up by whining about being judged for what she had said - at which point, she lost all respect from me.
I guess she only wants to be judged on her “headlights”. Given her personality, that’s probably wise.
THIS, so much THIS.
You gotta work with what you’ve got… or at least, what you’ve got after you’ve convinced someone else to pay for it.
Given that breast implants are a routine, safe, and commonly accepted part of our modern culture the question is ridiculous. Furthermore, her implants were so professionally done and so appropriate in size that no one knew they were implants until the media raised a stink about it. The more relevant question is “What are the appropriate criteria for selecting serious, credible judges?” Pageants are the about the contestants, and should not include an amateurish, disruptive, distracting judge and his flamboyant personal political agenda. Focus on the contestants and leave politics where they should be - in a political forum.
Common Sense says: No one knew they were implants. Have you had your eyes checked lately? They are so obviously fake (nobody has tennis-ball shapes like that naturally) that it is amusing that she would even be happy with them.
The problem with Prejean is NOT that she answered the judge’s question with her personal opinion. The problem is that she has decided to be a spokesperson for the National Organization for Marriage and SHE HAS CHOSEN to represent a political forum and lobby in Washington. Forget your comments about the “flamboyant” judge–Prejean is the one taking political action beyond answering a question. She should wait until her year is up as Miss California before she represents NOM since the California Pageant wants their representatives to remain noncontroversial. Hmmm…wonder if they’ll ask for the “Jugs for Jesus” back that they paid for?
Common Sense-you have a funny nickname as you don’t make sense. EVERYONE knew her breasts were fake. Haven’t you heard of the term ‘bolt ons’? Or ‘cantaloupe halves?’. She has the horrible, typical, fake boob look that so many women are OK with getting from a surgeon. Gross!
Whoa, if she needed implants to be the size she is now, she really needed them. She’s maybe a solid B. She must have been completely flat before. I have no problem with someone getting them. The only time I would disagree is if they were gigantic and looked out of proportion to her body.
Thank God for people like her who will defend family values. HA HA HA. Does she think God is happy with her breast implants? This is too good.
Nice to throw in a “loaded “political question! You really see the the true motive of the gay community! Big deal she wants to get implants, she’s a big girl now….no pun intended.
hey, she’s lives in a land where she can choose “opposite” breast implants, that’s what she believes in. No offense. lol.
What a skank! Can’t win on her own merits nor does she have the confidence in herself to do so. She is obviously fake and superficial because shouldn’t her faith in her god tell her to not win on her own instead of getting implants to help her along? What a hypocrite.
She is a beautiful woman and adds symmetry to her appearance. The sponsers feel that she was a good person of character to promote and beauty is what gets peoples attention!
Coherent sentences, please.
whatever plastic surgeon Al!
Boy thank God it’s only her Boobi@s! I would hate to think that she had any -
Liposuction
Teeth Whitening
Tummy tucking
Hip re-configuration
Complete folical removal of any hair below her eyebrows
Use of artificial tanning rooms or spray on tanning products
Que cards when speaking or ‘Ear Bud’ so someone else tells her what to say
She is really NOT a living Saint or provider of Miracles to those less fortunate than her
Rear-end lifting, flattening, buffering, puckering,slimming, rounding, etc.
Nope she just a real, wholesome, everyday kind of Gal from California!
HahahahahahahahahahahahahaaahahahahahahaLMFAO!
You people are unbelievable, including the poster of this story. You are so hung up on a person because she didn’t “lie” about her personal beliefs to align them with “yours,” that you’ll try to find any way you can to trash her. You people are very shallow and need to get a life. Now we’re going to trash someone because of breast implants? Seriously? Say that with a straight face while you look in the mirror admiring your tattoos, piercings and multi colored hair. Everyone has a choice on their appearance, not just YOU.
I totally agree with this.
I walk down the streets of Irvine.. okay maybe not Irvine.. but OC.. and people have piercings everywhere. It’s like 7/10 people dye their hair as well…
Also confused as to why the pageant paid for it…….
When you don’t say or support what the special interests (media, government, groups, etc.) want, get ready for the payback. What is the payback? Character assassination and the politics of personal destruction. So here it begins….
…..nothing…. I am just staring.
She wants to redefine traditional breasts for the rest of us. Is that Biblically correct?
So The Donald paid for her fakies, huh? What a surprise.
Why do we even have pageants?
Who cares, it’s not like it came from tax dollars. My only complaint is that it doesn’t look like that great of a job - needs more cleavage
Why is this even news?
Just the media’s continuation of character assassination because she didn’t go with the PC answer they were hoping for…gives the bottom dwellers another opportunity to pile on and have no opinions or intelligence of their own.
passthejack says:
“You people are unbelievable, including the poster of this story. You are so hung up on a person because she didn’t “lie” about her personal beliefs to align them with “yours,” that you’ll try to find any way you can to trash her. You people are very shallow”
That statement is quite ironic considering a beauty pageant is about as shallow as it gets. And people are pointing out the hypocrisy of it. Apparently God is an authority on marriage in Carrie Prejean’s eyes but somehow He fell short when it came to her breast size. Clearly she thinks God is good for some things but not for others. If you are going to invoke God on your positions about things, at least be consistent. She was not.
Blah, blah, blah, hate the Christians, blah, blah, blah, hate the conservatives, blah, blah, blah…how are those tats lookin’? I’m shocked that someone with the name “GregandJeff” would align themselves with Perez Hilton. Boo friggin hoo.
See, that’s where you have it backwards. Who’s hating Christians? Certainly not us. In fact, there are a great many Christians who side with same sex marriage (something the conservative base tends to ignore). Pointing out hypocrisy is not hating. It’s pointing out hypocrisy.
As for Perez, other then thinking Miss Calif. made herself look like a boob (pun intended) there’s precious little that we agree with Perez Hilton on. In fact, I tend to think of him as an obnoxious loudmouth.
As for your “blah blah blahs” and “boo hoos”, hopefully you can do better then that….they don’t exactly lend you much credibility or maturity in a discussion.
Your diatribe is simple lib regurgitation from the lib media kit and doesn’t deserve anymore. I’m here all the time and happy to engage in serious conversation. Calling out a “good” person and trying to destroy her doesn’t exactly give much credibility to the “free speech” community that constantly cries out for free speech and equal rights. Where’s the hypocrisy? Remind me. As you would see it, Christians should not use any types of products or procedures to enhance their physical appearance, including make-up, dental work, hair styling, nail polish, what century are you in?. So even if it helps them in their career, as shallow as you may think it is, these things should be reserved for the enlightened non-Christians only? I don’t claim to be much of a Christian, but I am pretty sure that “Thou shalt not enhance the breasts” is not one of the ten commandments. Educate me on hypocrisy. Charity work is quite shallow isn’t it? Do you know what responsibilities these shallow girls have? Any idea? Maybe if you just don’t believe in anything, you can sit back and snipe at those who actually do. That’s very noble, brave and classy of you….so yes, I’m bored by the “hatred and hypocrisy of libs.” To me, it’s just blah, blah, blah…boo friggin hoo…it’s all George Bush’s fault. Get some new material, or better yet, become a productive part of our society, rather than destructive.
I do not agree with her at all however I only have one thing to say. Those that are standing up in churches across this country preaching their version of morality and acting as if they are holier than thou, better darn well remember that this is the age of 24/7 internet news media and that they will be watched and once they fall off that holier than thou horse all will know the truth. You can now see her and her fake boobs on Youtube.com bumping and grinding to music in the pagent.
Are Christians sinless? Of course not; no one is sinless. That is precisely why we need Jesus as Lord and Savior. Some recognize that a Savior is needed and some do not.
Calling out a “good” person???? What makes her “good” or special in your eyes? Are all beauty queens “good” because they look sexy to you or something? I’d hardly call someone who is now actively campaigning against other people’s rights as “good”. Or something a current beauty queen should even be involved in.
And most Christians, if they go beyond a mere cursory glance of selected passages of the Bible that is, will understand the hypocrisy of a person who uses God to defend her position at times while completely ignoring God’s words at other times. It can’t be both ways.
And despite you trying to turn this into a liberal vs. conservative thing, it’s not. For a conservative Christian viewpoint from a biblical point of view, you should take a look at this:
http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=96305
And then get back to me when you understand the hypocrisy of Miss Calif.
You just don’t get it. She is campaigning for “her” first amendment rights and those of others that you people think only belong to you. Christians are not God and they do not pretend to be with a few exceptions, but what group of people doesn’t have some exceptions. You also imply that there are good Christians and bad Christians. Good Christians support Marriage for gays, and bad Christians don’t. That’s pretty self serving don’t you think? You can sit at your computer and tear down someone that you don’t even know because she has a different point of view as you. Her point of view makes her a bad person? Explain this. You seem bitter and resentful towards straight, attractive young women. Why wouldn’t I find her attractive? She is, but unfortunately, I am taken and she is much too young…doesn’t make her less attractive. Where you and your activists continue to get it wrong is, she is not campaigning against your’s or anyone’s rights, she is advocating traditional marriage between a man and a woman only. You choose to spin it negatively and be the “victim.” It is you and your compadres that want to take that right away from the people who value traditional marriage and have valued it for hundreds of years. No one is taking any rights away from the gay society. As far as I am concerned, and most people, Gay couples have the same rights and can have the same rights as everyone else, but marriage is already spoken for. Come up with another name for a Gay union. Its “NOT” the same. Use your head. It’s pretty simple to spot the difference. People don’t have a problem with civil unions with the same rights for gays, but that’s not good enough for you. You want to take away something from someone else to make you feel good. That’s a pathetic, selfish, resentful way to approach life.
Un huh. You just don’t get it either. For us, calling marriage another name is the same as telling me to go drink out of a separate fountain or to sit at the back of a bus. My relationship shouldn’t be treated as anything less than equal. For unlike what you state, it IS the same thing. Love is love. Just because YOU cannot fall in love with a man doesn’t mean that I cannot. You are approaching this issue from how you feel about falling for, sleeping with and building a life with a member of the same gender. Not the way things actually are in the world.
And yes, there are good Christians and bad Christians. The bad ones would be the ones that flip us off as they drive up to their church on Sunday morning. And, I’ve even been told that there are bad Christians by Yes on 8 voters who they themselves are conservative Christians posting right in the OC Register forums. So it’s not just me that thinks this or even my “side”. People on your “side” think that too.
Speaking of bad, I always find it interesting when a conservative projects onto gays the things that they themselves do, and then call it bad. For instance “gays recruit” when in fact religion is the thing that needs to be recruited for. You make some similar points:
“You can sit at your computer and tear down someone that you don’t even know because she has a different point of view as you.”
Aren’t you doing the same to me? And prop 8 voters who “don’t even know” us took a vote on who we should be married to which frankly is the most personal thing someone can do. If my friends and family don’t have any business picking a spouse for me, then complete strangers at a ballot box certainly don’t either.
Then we have this:
“It is you and your compadres that want to take that right away from the people who value traditional marriage and have valued it for hundreds of years”.
Rights taken away? What rights? Gay marriage was stripped away by prop 8 not religious views. That’s like the bully who threw the punch complaining that he doesn’t have a right to hit someone. If I sit down at a table with an endless supply of food, is your meal somehow different because I sat down at the table too? Cause that’s what you are saying.
And finally the best of all:
“you want to take away something from someone else to make you feel good. That’s a pathetic, selfish, resentful way to approach life.”
Ironic calling someone else selfish when you admittedly want to horde the “marriage” term to yourself. You must have not shared any of your toys as a child either. It’s even more ironic when you consider that nothing is really “being taken away” from you. If your marriage is so fragile that someone else getting married affects it, you have much bigger problems than anything we are discussing here. Talk about playing victim!!! The height of selfishness is to restrict others from having the same thing you already have. 1138 things I might add.
Your arguments are weak and like I said earlier, straight from the lib media kit. You still don’t get it, and you’ll never get it, because you choose to be angry, you choose to be different and you choose to be hostile to those who don’t agree with you. A judge…one judge in California approved marriage for Gays against the wishes of the voters (that would be the majority) twice. The priviledge lasted for a few months and you want to compare that to hundreds of years. You can’t take something away that you never really had.
The other part you don’t get is, this is not about civil rights, so stop the comparisons what african americans went through. No one says you can’t love a man, it just doesn’t make sense to call it the same thing as a man/woman marriage. Anyone that believes that is only doing so to try to punish those who don’t agree with them. Tearing you down? Big difference here, you have exposed yourself for what you are. A pathetic resentful person who’s biggest purpose in life is about himself and could care less about anyone else that disagrees with him. Miss California though, she simply stated that she thinks marriage should be between a man and a woman, and has stuck by that, without “EVER” denying the right of gays to fall in love and have the same benefits as everyone else. Keep crying and being the victim. It just continues to hurt your cause, because you will never, ever be satisfied unless you can hurt someone else.
Once again, you prove my point about that projection thing conservatives do. You say I’m bitter, and angry then you go on a bitter angry rant of your own that makes anyone else’s post in this story pale in comparison. Just go back and look at the tone of my post compared to yours. It’s clear who the bitter one in life is and it certainly isn’t me.
And then you say MY aruguments are weak? Wow…let’s look at yours shall we:
“That privilege lasted a few months and you want to compare that to hundreds of years”. “You can’t take something away that you never really had.”
What’s time have to do with it? Married is married. Would you consider yourself to not be married 4 months into your marriage? How long before you would consider yourself married? I’d like an answer on that.
“one judge in California approved marriage for Gays against the wishes of the voters (that would be the majority) twice”
You do realize that is what courts are there for right? To interpret the validity of contracts, laws, propositions, etc etc. And you also do realize that the margin of people against gay marriage continues to slip right? Cause if you look at the margins between prop 22 and prop 8 (a BARE majority), not to mention the even more recent polling data which is showing people even more in favor of it AFTER prop 8, there is no question as to which way things are headed. You’re just bitter that the tide is turning against you and that Prop 8 backfired and called to attention the need for equality even more.
“Miss California stated…without “EVER” denying the right of gays to fall in love and have the same benefits as everyone else”
Really? How is it the same as everyone else, when you want to call it something different? How is it the same benefits when there are benefits that are granted only with marriages? I’ve asked this question for months now and not a single person has ever been able to answer that. Because they can’t rationally. There is no defense for the separate drinking fountain strategy you want to employ. Separate is never equal. How many times must it be said?
“Keep crying and being the victim. It just continues to hurt your cause, because you will never, ever be satisfied unless you can hurt someone else.”
I’m not the one crying that someone else’s marriage somehow “takes away” something from own. Also not the one drafting ballot measures against other people’s relationships. So who is really trying to hurt someone else? And who are the ones really playing victim? And who’s cause is the one really being hurt? Hint: The answer is staring at you in the mirror.
Speaking of mirrors….
“you have exposed yourself for what you are you are. A pathetic resentful person who’s biggest purpose in life is about himself and could care less about anyone else that disagrees with him.”
Wow….with that comment full of vim and vinegar you expose waaaaaay more about yourself than me. Not sure why you have such a chip on your shoulder or are so resentful of gay issues, but hopefully you work it out someday. I wish you the best.
Oh Greg, or is it Jeff…or maybe the two of you are sitting there with your lib media kit piecing together your responses. I am so sorry you have your panties in a bunch over this.
Have you ever had to drink from a different fountain than traditional marriage folks? Even been forced to sit in the back of a bus while the tradional married folks sat in the front? Stop maybe ridiculous analogies.
You, both of you are free like everyone else to marry someone of the opposite sex. No one is denying you that right…and if you choose to form a union with someone of the same sex, well that’s not marriage is it? But what you choose to do is up to you. It’s as simple as that.
Here’s an analogy as weak as your water fountain, bus one…Jack decides to open up a store called the Hardware Store, but there is no hardware there, just food and alcohol…so why did he call it a hardware store??? Because he can legally and has nothing better to do than argue a stupid point and waste people’s time and money.
I’m done with you, you refuse to embrace rationality and logic. I write these posts with a big smile on my face because I already know what the responses will be…they never change. Don’t worry about my blood pressure, laughing extends one’s life. On to another topic for me, but feel free to stay and bash me and everyone else that believes in traditional marriage. It’s your right.
Why would we marry someone that we weren’t in love with? Telling someone they have a right to marry someone they don’t love while denying them the right to marry the person they do is hardly equal rights.
And again with the projection thing…wasting time and money? There was no bigger waste of either then Prop 8. So much money flushed down the toilet for what in the end will be a lost battle. Heck, three states have passed same sex marriage SINCE prop 8. One of them today!!! (Maine)
Logic and rationality is happily embraced when we SEE it. But if you provide none, then there is nothing to embrace.
Like the broad said…
I share the same views on gay marriage as President Obama.
WoW!
She is a real stunner, her teeth are so white. Who cares if she has had implants or not?