Prejean (Miss California) was already one of America’s most controversial beauty queens, but now the leak of semi-nude pictures has been met with renewed calls to strip off her tiara and stole.

NBC’s the TODAY show did a report on the whole Miss USA backstory, here, but what you need to know is that during the pageant the 21-year-old California model made headlines for saying she was raised to think same-sixy marriage wasn’t right when asked about legalizing gay marriage across the country (video of the question and her response here).

Indeed, Perez Hilton, a celebrity blogger and judge who asked the question during the competition called her a “dumb bitch” on his blog after she made her remarks. Prejean finished second in theMiss USA pageant to Miss North Carolina Kristen Dalton.

Ms. Prejean, for her part, vaulted from runner-up in the contest to a starring role in the latest advertisement by the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) advocacy group (watch it here). She has since vowed “to do whatever it takes to protect marriage.” NOM is known for it’s support of the anti gay-marriage proposition 8 (which passed in the November 2008 election) and its controversial Gathering Storm ad.

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