We Paid for Implants: Pageant Boss

Miss California Alyssa Campanella wins the title

(NEWSER) - Miss California Alyssa Campanella, a self-described “huge history geek,” was named Miss USA at the Las Vegas pageant last night. The 21-year-old formerly represented New Jersey in the Miss Teen USA contest in 2007, but moved to Los Angeles a year and a half ago and plans to stay. She will move on to the Miss Universe pageant in Brazil on Sept. 12. More»

The ex-beauty queen's baby is due in May

(NEWSER) - Here it is, the next generation of beauty queens: Carrie Prejean is pregnant. The former Miss California married Oakland Raiders quarterback Kyle Boller in July and the two started trying for a baby just a month later, they tell Fox News . No word on whether it's a boy or girl, but Prejean is due in May. “I have the most beautiful pregnant wife ever,” Boller gushed. For more on the pregnancy, click here . For all things Prejean, click here. More»

Miss Universe is all business, no fun

(NEWSER) - Beauty pageants used to be “a hoot and a holler and a half,” but last night’s Miss Universe competition hailed their death. “Even as a gay man, I couldn't find joy or fun in last night's monument to wax figurines and Donald Trump,” writes Louis Bayard on Salon . It was essentially one long commercial, played out “efficiently and relentlessly and, yes, joylessly,” Bayard continues. “This is business. There's no room on the balance sheet for lust. Or camp. Or grunge. Or even beauty.” More»

Jose Fidelino is behind all those celebrity divorces

(NEWSER) - Jose Fidelino has a confession: He’s to blame for Al and Tipper Gore’s breakup, all seven of Larry King’s divorces, and the Sandra Bullock-Jesse James split. “No, I am not a 50-something masseuse or a tattoo model with a thing for Nazi outfits,” he writes in Time . “I'm just a gay man who's about to celebrate his second wedding anniversary. Apparently, my marriage is a menace.” If gay marriage endangers the institution of marriage, Fidelino reasons, then he's one big homewrecker. More»

Ten reasons, from sad to sadder

(NEWSER) - Sometimes it’s because their boyfriends like big boobs, and sometimes it’s because Jesus doesn’t not like big boobs. Ten celebrities and the reasons they gave for getting breast enhancements, rounded up by The Frisky :

• Carmen Electra: Says now it was just “really trendy” to get breast implants, so she went for it. Plus, her boyfriend paid.
• Carrie Prejean: “I don’t see anywhere in the Bible where it says you shouldn’t get breast implants,” the disgraced beauty queen once said. What better reason is there?