The organization is overhauling its competition in a post-#MeToo world. Miss America is scrapping its swimsuit competition and will no longer judge contestants based on physical appearance, the ...

Miss America is getting rid of its swimsuit competition and will no longer judge contestants based on their "outward physical appearance," the organization announced Tuesday morning. Moving forward, ...

The time when the Miss America pageant meant young women in bikinis and high heels is over. Miss America Board chairwoman Gretchen Carlson, a former pageant winner herself, made the announcement on ...

When 2018 Miss America Cara Mund took to Twitter yesterday to urge fans of the event to tune in to ABC's Good Morning America for some major announcements about this year's edition, she wasn't joking.

The swimsuit competition remains one of the most controversial parts of the pageant business — at least, that is, until someone flubs an answer in the Q&A round. To many, it's an archaic, ogle-centric ...

Miss South Shore Jaime Gialloreto, of Woolwich Township, walks the stage in the swimsuit competition during the final night of the 2018 Miss New Jersey Pageant, Saturday, June 16, 2018. Miss Central ...

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 ...