Miss America getting rid of the swimsuit competition is the right call. I know from experience.

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.

A separate competition, Miss America, is ending its swimsuit competition. Shortly after Miss America made headlines with a bombshell announcement that it's scrapping its swimsuit competition, the ...

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. But what ...

Miss America Eliminates Swimsuit Competition: 'We Are No Longer a Pageant' "We will no longer judge our candidates on their outward physical appearance," Gretchen Carlson said of the Miss America ...

The swimsuit competition has been a part of the Miss America pageant for nearly 100 years. So why, in 2018, did the powers that be at the Atlantic City competition decide to get rid of it? It was ...

Arts and Entertainment Miss America eliminates swimsuit competition and won’t judge contestants on physical appearance June 5, 2018 More than 7 years ago ...

Miss World axes its swimsuit competition but they'll still have a 'beachwear' contest. So there's that.

A little background: Ho's #ThrowbackThursday post provided a glimpse at her bikini competition days. The photo, taken in 2012, shows Ho and three other bronzed women clad in tiny swimsuits.

I used to shrug off the feminists who made a big deal about the swimsuit competition in pageants being sexist; I believed my mentors in the pageant world that, like in body-building competitions ...

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… ...