This year's Miss New Jersey, Brenna Weick, says the swimsuit competition actually helped her refocus her body image in a positive light, but adds that she wouldn't mind if the pageant used a ...

On Sunday night, 51 women competed for the title of "Miss America 2019" in Atlantic City, New Jersey. This year, the show incorporated several changes and didn't included a swimsuit competition ...

Miss New Jersey's views stand in opposition to not only the new orientation of the pageant, but also one Miss America whose bathing suit protest shaped pageant history. Yolande Betbeze, Miss ...

The Miss America Organization is dropping the swimsuit competition from its nationally televised broadcast, saying it will no longer judge contestants on their appearance.

Waving off critics, Miss America prepares for contest without swimsuit competition Miss America's new leader has been pilloried for ending the iconic swimsuit segment of the contest ...

Miss Georgia 2017, Alyssa Beasley, participates in a swimsuit competitions during Miss America 2018 at Boardwalk Hall Arena in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on September 7, 2017.

Contestants from Maryland and Pennsylvania won preliminary competitions Thursday on the third night of the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Miss Maryland Jade Kenny won the ...

In 1951, Yolande Betbeze Fox roiled the Miss America Organization when, after winning the pageant, she refused to model a new line of bathing suits made by one of the ...

Miss Tennessee 2017 Caty Davis participates in the Swimsuit challenge during the 2018 Miss America Competition Show at Boardwalk Hall Arena, Sept. 10, 2017, in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

The competition began nearly 100 years ago in Atlantic City, New Jersey, as a bathing beauty contest designed to keep tourists coming to the seaside resort the weekend after Labor Day.

The Miss America Organization is dropping the swimsuit competition from its nationally televised broadcast, saying it will no longer judge contestants on their appearance.