Beyond the sparkle and choreography, every contestant has one mission during prelims: get noticed. The judges’ scores in these early rounds decide who moves closer to that coveted crown. That means ...

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 ...

The first night of preliminaries in the revamped, swimsuit-less Miss America competition was held Wednesday, with contestants in Atlantic City, N.J., saying the 98-year tradition was "behind us." ...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — The Miss America pageant is dropping the swimsuit competition, saying it will no longer judge contestants on their appearance. The competition began nearly 100 years ago in ...

Shortly after winning the Miss America swimsuit competition—and making the top 10 in the pageant overall—I was signed by my first television agent, who was a senior partner at one of the best agencies ...

Once little more than a beauty pageant, the Miss Strawberry Days contest is doing away with swimsuits and is judging contestants on personality and leadership qualities. Strawberry Days is almost as ...

I used to shrug off the feminists who made a big deal about the swimsuit competition in pageants being sexist; I believed my mentors in the pageant world that, like in body-building competitions, ...

America’s famous pageant is getting a huge makeover with sweeping changes, including the elimination of the swimsuit competition. The organization's new chairwoman, Gretchen Carlson, who won the title ...

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 ...

After this year's Miss Louisiana Pageant, which is under way in Monroe, the aspiring young women will no longer appear in revealing bathing suits. In 2018 "contestants will compete in interview, ...

"We are no longer a pageant. We are a competition." "We will no longer judge our candidates on their outward physical appearance." With those words, Miss America ushered in a whole new era this ...