For the first time in nearly a century, Miss America contestants will not strut onstage in swimsuits this year, the organizers announced on Tuesday, as the pageant tries to redefine its role in an era ...

NEW YORK (WTVD) -- Goodbye beauty, hello brains - the Miss America pageant is getting a makeover. Miss America has decided to cut its swimsuit competition, adding that it will no longer judge ...

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 ...

The Miss Universe pageant is slated to take place on Nov. 21 As the annual Miss Universe pageant draws nearer, contestants are ramping up their preparation for the international beauty pageant. On ...

It has been five years since the Miss America pageant did away with the swimsuit competition, but after Monday’s episode of Secrets of Miss America, it’s clear that the debate still rages among former ...

Natalie and Monique demonstrate why two is always better than one during the Bikini Contest at the 2007 Forbidden Fantasy Show n Shine.

For nearly a century, Miss America contestants have strutted onstage and struck poses in increasingly skimpy swimsuits, in a controversial pageant tradition that organizers long defended as a gauge of ...