When the Miss America Organization announced on Tuesday that its namesake contest is eliminating its swimsuit competition, some fans and former contestants alike welcomed the move as a sign of ...

Two former pageant contestants touched Miss America’s third rail — the swimsuit competition — on “Good Morning America” Friday morning, hinting at what, I hope, is the start of a bold ...

Formal calls to excise the swimsuit competition have been around since the '90s in the Miss America world, says Hilary Levey Friedman, a pageant expert and professor at Brown University. Her ...

Swimsuits were the most sexist component of the Miss America Pageant. I'm glad they're gone, but for a real feminist win, let's add a fitness contest.

On Sunday, the Miss America contest will take place without a swimsuit competition for the first time in the pageant’s nearly century-old history. The new Miss America Chairman Gretchen Carlson ...

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 ...

When the 2019 Miss America pageant begins in Atlantic City this September, the bikini swimsuits, strategically applied butt glue and scantily clad runway walks will be no more. New leaders of the ...

Gretchen Carlson, Miss America Organization Board of Trustees chair, had a major announcement on 'Good Morning America': There will be no more swimsuit competition.

The second 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." ...

The Miss America pageant is dropping the swimsuit competition, saying it will no longer judge contestants on their appearance but on “what makes you you.” The pageant began nearly 100 years ...

Updated at 11:20 a.m. ET. Miss America is waving goodbye to its swimsuit competition, scrapping one of its most iconic elements in an attempt to shift the annual ceremony's emphasis from its ...