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Miss California's Breast Implants Funded By Pageant: CONFIRMED
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Funded By Pageant: CONFIRMED

Friday morning a Miss California Pageant official confirmed previous
reports that controversial contestant Carrie Prejean received free
breast implants, organized and paid for by the pageant, weeks before the
Miss USA competition.

In an interview on "The Early Show," Keith Lewis, the co-Director of the
Miss California Pageant, admitted to helping Prejean get the boob job.

"We assisted when Carrie came to us and voiced the interest in having
the procedure done," Lewis told "Early Show" co-anchor Maggie Rodriguez.

"We want to put her in the best possible confidence in order to present
herself in the best possible light on a national stage."

Full transcript is below:

MAGGIE RODRIGUEZ, CO-ANCHOR: A question we're going to put to Keith
Lewis, the co-director of the Miss California organization, who joins us
this morning from Los Angeles. Good morning to you, Mr. Lewis.


KEITH LEWIS, CO-DIRECTOR, MISS CALIFORNIA PAGEANT: Good morning.

RODRIGUEZ: First of all, can you settle this once and for all? Did
you pay for or help pay for Miss California's breast implants?

LEWIS: We assisted when Carrie came to us and voiced the interest
in having the procedure done, yes.

RODRIGUEZ: Why?
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LEWIS: Well, you know, first off, it's not something that we
endorse, nor is it something that we suggest. But when we meet with the
titleholder when she's crowned Miss California, we put to her a litany
of questions about how she feels about herself, what she feels she needs
to work on, what she may need to change, what is good, what is not good.
We want to put her in the best possible confidence in order to present
herself in the best possible light on a national stage.

RODRIGUEZ: Why is the best possible confidence involve getting
breast implants? Why does that improve her odds of winning? Why in that
meeting don't you discourage her from going that route, rather than help
her to pay for breast implants?

LEWIS: Well, 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.

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.

RODRIGUEZ: It is, and that is unfortunate. Keith Lewis, thanks for
your time.

LEWIS: You're so welcome.