Excerpt from Carrie Prejean's tell-all book: "He stopped and stared at my butt. For a long time."

[Amerigo Vespucci]

In her new book, "Still Standing," former Miss California Carrie Prejean claims that she was forced to get breast implants after being felt up by a pageant director, reveals Donald Trump's crude method of selecting the top Miss USA contestants and says she's become phone pals with both Sarah Palin and her daughter Bristol.

Notably missing from the book: any mention of her sex tape.

Prejean, who was fired by the pageant in the wake of a controversy over her gay marriage remarks, recalls how Miss California pageant director Keith Lewis ran his hands all over her body shortly after she won:

He stopped and stared at my butt. For a long time. He touched me on the butt, then ran his hands around my hips, looked at my butt again, touched it again, ran his hands around my hips again, and examined each of my breasts...

And then he said, "Have you ever thought of getting a boob job?"

When Prejean expressed her reservations, she claims that Lewis pressured her by saying that he had paid for boob jobs for past Miss Californias.

"'I really think you need it'... He told me the pageant would pay for it and made it clear it had to happen soon," writes Prejean.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/10/carrie-prejean-claims-she_n_352198.html

[joeybee12]

1. Well, he's a man, so he must be scum and she must be telling the truth...

...Jebus Cripes...why does anyone believe anything she says?

Let's hope he sues her fake boobs off!

[Nikki Stone1]

2. I actually believe this one.

K & R

[Amerigo Vespucci]

6. I have no reason to doubt it...

...one of my favorite books...one I HIGHLY recommend...is "Yakuza Diary: Doing Time In The Japanese Underworld."



http://www.amazon.com/Yakuza-Diary-Doing-Japanese-Underworld/dp/087113604X/

Christopher Seymour was an American author living and working in Japan at the time of this book. He gained unprecedented access (for a Westerner, a gaijin) to the inner circle of Japan's organized crime scene.

Porn is big in Japan, and they are into the "fresh faces" concept...girls are recruited, used, and kicked to the curb, unless they have sustainable marketability.

The term Japanese crime bosses use for "new talent" in the porn world?

"Tuna."

So the Prejean thing immediately made me think of this book. It doesn't make her a better person or change any of her recent history, but do I believe that she was treated like a piece of meat?

Of course I do.

Should she have "known better" before getting involved in that world?

I have no right to ask that question. It's her life. I can comment on her politics, but her life is her responsibility, not mine.

I think of the story about the frog and the scorpion. Beauty pageants are filled with scorpions...they feel women up and they sting things. Maybe she thought she could rise above that. She was wrong, but her own free will got her involved, so I respect that, at minimum.

:patriot:

[polichick]

3. How can women subject themselves to these meat shows?? Sad stuff. nt

[Drunken Irishman]

4. I don't buy a word she says. She's a liar.

[mitchum]

5. Don't dog show officials also place their hands on a contestant?

I don't see the problem.
There is no discernible difference between a dog show and a beauty pageant

[ashling]

8. They have to check the bitch for proper confirmation

as per American Kennel Club guidelines.
:shrug:

[Jane Austin]

12. Not true about dog shows!

Any surgical alterations are strictly prohibited - except for ear cropping and tail docking required to meet long-established breed standards.

Rubber bands on the teeth (to correct an under bite, for instance) will get a handler suspended for five years.

Even minor things like removal of an extra eyelash that's irritating the eye are forbidden.

You can lose your eligibility by trying surgically to correct a tail that curves upward in a breed whose standard requires a level tail set.

As much as I hate the rampant politics in dog showing, at least there is an effort to present the dogs according to their breed standard.

Beauty pageants? Not so much if you can surgically improve the breasts.

[tanyev]

7. And she was so offended that she stormed out of the room and quit the pageant business forever!

No?

[lumberjack_jeff]

10. But I'm sure she was shocked, SHOCKED, and registered her strong disapproval. n/t

[lumberjack_jeff]

9. All publicity is good publicity.

How many Miss America winners can you name?

I only remember Vanessa Williams.

[rurallib]

11. Talk about a boob - having Sarah Palin as a friend.

Uh - don't turn your back, Miss Prejean.

[lurky]

13. "Forced"? At gunpoint? Did they hold her family hostage?

Was she drugged and given black-market boob surgery while she was unconscious?

Or did they just strongly suggest it and she went along because she wanted to win Miss America? Last I heard, competing in beauty pageants was an optional activity.

[Guilded Lilly]

14. Is she bragging or offended? Or just simply using any means to further her fifteen minutes?

I have little or no sympathy for women who willingly throw themselves into the pageant mindset, allowing judges to paw them intimately and then claim ...*mean scummy man forced me to...blah blah blah*
Being in pageants was her choice. It isn't as if there are no other avenues available for pretty, driven, ambitious women. HER CHOICE. And I am quite sure by the time she got to the level she reached, she knew the *score*.

While I have no qualms about pageant women using the concept of being physically beautiful to further their careers, it repels me when the same ambitious women play vulnerable victim. Baloney.

Ms. Prejean used her sexuality to get where she was in the pageant world and now wants ...someone...to feel that she was somehow abused by these scumbag pageant directors? That she didn't/doesn't have a brain in her well coiffed head? What exactly is she trying to prove here?

"Poor little beautiful me and my compromised morals" doesn't quite make it going hand in hand (no pun intended) with her photo-shoots and video.

Crying wolf, then calculatingly profiting off the "wolf" carcass isn't a great way to gain respect.