The #MeToo movement has claimed another victim: The Miss America Pageant's “Lifestyle and Fitness” competition, better known as the swimsuit contest. But don't get too excited. It's not the ...

In fact, though Miss America started specifically as a swimsuit competition, that format was then considered by some to be liberating for participants.

So the swimsuit competition will not be missed, and Miss America is helping to lead the way. The organization has already produced two former Miss Americas-turned-candidates, ...

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

The swimsuit competition was ALWAYS my least favorite part of competing in pageants. Emily Slawek I did work out especially hard for the bikini portion , but I've always had hips regardless of my ...

How the Swimsuit Showdown Shaped the Miss America Contest A new behind-the-scenes book, “There She Was,” and a Smithsonian collecting initiative celebrate the pageant’s centennial ...

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 ...

More than a bikini body. It wasn’t the swimsuit competition that landed me my crown, but a contest I hadn’t known existed: the 10-minute long interview with the judges, which occurs backstage.

People have been protesting the Miss America pageant, and the swimsuit competition specifically, since the 1960s. And maybe, if the organization had made the change back then, it would have helped.

Recently, the Miss World competition decided to cancel the swimsuit portion of its competition. Since the competition began in 1951, girls have gotten in their skivvies to compete for the crown.

Here's everything you need to know about bikini competition training—what the show is like, how people train, whether it's safe for you, and what real bikini competitors have to say about them.

What about the 2016 Swimsuit Contest? June 14, 2015 More than 10 years ago Martin O'Malley lets out a scream as he jumps out of the frigid Chesapeake Bay in the 2011 Polar Bear Plunge.