Miss California USA officials want Carrie Prejean to repay $5,200 they say she borrowed to have her breasts augmented last year.

The demand was a response to a lawsuit filed by Prejean in which she claimed pageant officials violated the former beauty queen’s privacy by acknowledging to reporters that her breasts were fake.

The truth about Prejean’s breasts “ceased being private during the swimsuit competition of the nationally televised Miss USA pageant, in which Ms. Prejean walked the stage in a bikini,” pageant lawyers said.

Prejean’s lawyer said the pageant filing was part of an “ongoing smear campaign” against her.

“They have proven, once again, that they will use whatever scurrilous accusations they can dredge up - or invent - to try and tarnish Carrie’s reputation and her good name,” Charles LiMandri said.

State pageant officials say they loaned the money for the surgery under an oral agreement with Prejean - who they dethroned as Miss California USA in June - and she never repaid them.

The group also asked a judge to give them any profits from Prejean’s tell-all book due out next month, which they claim was written in violation of her pageant contract.

“Our claim is not about financial reward, and all profits awarded will be donated to a charity that promotes the values of our organization,” Miss California USA Executive Director Keith Lewis said.

The pageant’s demands were made in a cross-complaint filed in response to Prejean’s lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court in August, in which she claims her firing was religious discrimination because of her stand against same-sex marriage.

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Miss California Carrie Prejean is keeping with the Christian theme by scheduling an appearance at the upcoming Gospel Music Association’s Dove Awards.Prejean has drawn attention for her comments against gay marriage at the Miss USA pageant, where she was first runner-up last weekend.

A spokeswoman for the beauty queen says she’ll introduce a performance by Mercy Me of their hit “I Can Only Imagine” on Thursday night.

The Dove Awards will air live from Nashville on the Gospel Music Channel beginning 8 p.m. ET.

During Sunday’s Miss USA pageant, Prejean’s response to a question from openly gay pageant judge and celebrity blogger Perez Hilton has received more attention than the winner, Miss North Carolina Kristen Dalton.

Hilton asked Prejean if every state should follow Vermont and three others by legalizing same-sex marriage.

“I think it’s great that Americans are able to choose one or the other,” Prejean responded.

“But in my country and in my family I think that I believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offence to anybody out there but that’s how I was raised.”

Prejean, who was named first runner-up at the pageant, defended her views Tuesday on NBC’s “Today” show, saying she knew after she’d answered the question she was not going to win because of it.

Still, she stood by her answer, saying it was about being “biblically correct,” instead of “politically correct.”