When beauty pageants rose to popularity during the women's suffrage movement, they were hailed as the feminist event of the century. Pageants served as an arena for its participants to celebrate being ...

The ousted Miss USA president ripped contestants in the 2022 pageant for accusing her of rigging the competition in favor of Miss Texas, a new documentary revealed. Crystle Stewart, 42, who lost her ...

She is not drop-dead gorgeous. A beauty pageant competitor survived quite the shocking experiencing Sunday while competing at the Miss Sahuayo 2022 contest in Michoacán, Mexico. Andrea Granados Victor ...

Miss USA 2019 Cheslie Kryst's suicide in January was met with grief in the pageant community. Miss USA's president, Crystle Stewart, later said that she'd prioritize contestants' mental health. But ...

Miss USA held its first pageant in 1952, but not every state has taken home the crown. Eighteen states, including Alaska and ...

The entrance to the 2022 Miss Calendar Girl beauty pageant would be easy to miss — tucked away at the back of the Retreat Hotel in Cape Town, South Africa — were it not for the music being so loud you ...

There she is, ready to crown her successor. That’s the cost of membership ... per month. The Miss America Organization, which is based in Sewell, says this fee provides access to streaming via the web ...

The Miss United States of America pageant can, under the First Amendment, exclude transgender women from participating, a federal appeals court has ruled. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- Police in one Southeast Missouri community helped a previous pageant winner in crowning the new pageant winner after she was involved in a car crash. Cape Girardeau Police ...

In the following years, pageants became more sensational as women traded their politically forward sashes for figure-fitting gowns and skimpy bikinis. Looks suddenly became a primary focus in ...