Caroline Michelle "Carrie" Prejean Boller is an
American model, author, former
Miss California USA 2009 and
Miss USA 2009 first runner-up. Prejean received national attention in 2009 when she told a pageant judge that marriage should be between a man and a woman; pageant judge and gossip blogger
Perez Hilton used his final question in the Miss USA pageant to ask Prejean about
same-sex marriage laws in the United States, and used his popular gossip blog to publicize her response. Hilton, who is gay, thought that her views were prejudiced.
Later, Prejean was stripped of her Miss California USA crown for alleged breaches of contract.
Contentious litigation between Prejean and the Miss California organization was settled in November 2009.
Later that month, Prejean released a book relating the story from her point of view.