An ugly little power struggle is playing out behind the refined curtains of the Fairest of the Fair beauty pageant. While conflicts in these contests are not new, this one stands out for the players.

Beauty pageants continue to promote thin beauty–now misleadingly spun as “fitness”–and they are propagating the thin ideal to developing countries. MINNEAPOLIS (WOMENSENEWS)–At this moment, young ...

Since Camille Lewis watched her first Miss America pageant on television at age 4, she has dreamed that someday she, too, would wear the crown. Lewis, 22, of Silver Spring, will try to make her dream ...

ATLANTIC CITY, Sept. 21 -- Miss Illinois Erika Harold, who put Harvard University law school on hold so she could compete in the Miss America pageant, won it all tonight. Harold, 22, an opera singer ...