Erica Robin, who placed in the top 20, is the first woman to represent Pakistan in the Miss Universe pageant.

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 ...

After months of controversy within the Miss America organization, executives announced Tuesday that the nearly century-old pageant will no longer judge contestants on their physical appearance.

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 ...

There she is, the new Miss America. Miss New York Cassie Donegan upgraded her tiara Sept. 7 besting 51 of her fellow contestants to take the literal crown in Orlando. “Miss America has always been a ...

Miss Universe Canada Jamie VandenBerg said she was several months pregnant when she competed in last year’s Miss Universe pageant. The 29-year-old beauty queen revealed that secret in an ad for car ...

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 ...

Young women competing for the title of Winnebago County Fair Queen will no longer wear swimsuits and walk across the stadium stage and in front of judges as part of the competition. Fair officials ...

Emma Broyles, the first Miss Alaska to be Miss America, told Insider she's glad contestants "don't have to put on a swimsuit to get people to listen." ...