The Miss America Pageant is deeply rooted in swimsuit-ready bodies. In 1921, what is now known as Miss America began as a bathing beauties contest in Atlantic City .

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

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 ...

Gretchen Carlson, the chairwoman of the Miss America board of directors, announced on “Good Morning America” that the event will no longer feature a swimsuit portion. Miss America will be a ...

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." ...

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 ...

So long, swimsuits and evening gowns. Miss America's done with you. In announcement made Tuesday on Good Morning America, the Miss America Organization (not the Trump-affiliated one, that's Miss ...

Miss Georgia 2017, Alyssa Beasley participates in the swimsuit challenge during Miss America 2018 at Boardwalk Hall Arena, Sept. 7, 2017, in Atlantic City, N.J. Donald Kravitz/Getty Images .

Miss America‘s swimsuit competition, the very competition that launched the pageant’s inaugural contest, will be no more, according to Miss America Organization chair Gretchen Carlson. Carlson ...

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 ...