Since its beginnings as "a bathing beauty pageant" 97 years ago, more than 4,000 women have worn swimwear on the Miss America stage. Over time, the swimsuit competition has proved increasingly ...

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The next edition of the Miss America pageant will scrap swimsuits and will be more inclusive to women of all sizes, the contest announced Tuesday. Gretchen Carlson, the chairwoman of the Miss America ...

The Miss America Organization’s decision to eliminate the swimsuit portion of its famous pageant could be the natural outgrowth of an all-female leadership team, or a reflection of the #MeToo era. To ...

The swimsuits are gone, but there has been plenty of controversy surrounding this year's Miss America competition to fill that void. The next Miss America will be crowned around 11 p.m. Sunday on a ...

The Miss America ceremony subtracted the swimsuit competition for the first time in its 98-year history, and subtracted one million television viewers, too. The Nielsen company said 4.34 million ...

For audiences in the United States, the 2025 Miss Universe pageant will be available to stream via Telemundo and Peacock on ...

Miss Black America will celebrate its 50th anniversary in Kansas City with the pomp expected from the nation’s oldest pageant for women of color. Kansas Citians should welcome organizers and ...

CRISFIELD, Md.- Contestants in the Miss Crustacean Pageant in Crisfield can leave their swimsuits behind this year. The swimsuit competition has been replaced following concerns from the girls about ...

In "Miss America 2.0," the pageant is not a pageant, but a "competition." The contestants aren't contestants, but "candidates." And swimsuits are no longer part of the program. After a messy scandal ...

MUSKEGON, MI - The Miss America pageant began as a “bathing beauties revue” in 1921 with women in swimsuits as the focus. In 2018, the first Miss America who did not don a swimsuit on the national ...

The pageant has nixed one of its most iconic -- and controversial -- contests. Two of the most iconic and controversial traditions will be missing when the preliminary competition for the Miss America ...