Carrie Prejean started volunteering with the San Diego chapter of JC 's Girls in 2008 and became Miss California USA the following year . At the Miss USA 2009 competition , Prejean became the subject of a controversy because of her response to a question about same-sex marriage . Scher said that the controversy would not affect Prejean 's involvement with the organization and that the issue of same-sex marriage was not relevant to the group 's activities . Prejean said that in volunteering with JC 's Girls , she encountered pornographic models who , through exploitation and abuse , had developed very low self-esteem but who had regained a sense of their own dignity because of their interaction with JC 's Girls volunteers
Miss USA 2009
Miss USA 2009
JC's Girls