Beauty Pageants - News on gender, culture, and politics.

7/21/19

The Rapid Life Cycle of a Conservative Martyr

On Friday, Kathy Zhu, Miss Michigan and upcoming Miss World America contestant, was stripped of her rank after a…

Save

Miss America: Civil War

The United States of Miss America are falling the fuuuuuuuuuuck apart, according to reports.

Save

Former Miss Americas Will Help Pick New Leadership After Fat-Shaming CEO Steps Down

After a gross little email scandal that found three top executives of the Miss America Organization resigning in…

Save

Miss Peru Beauty Pageant Contestants Recite Facts About Violence Against Women Instead of Their Measurements

Apparently sometimes beauty pageant contestants are asked to disclose their bodily dimensions publicly during…

Save

Miss Teen USA Is Eliminating the Swimsuit Competition and Replacing It With...Athleisure?

Apparently awoken to the fact that asking women ages 14-19 to submit their bikini bodies for public judgment is a…

Save

The Long, Strange Life of the Mrs. America Pageant

Miss America requires its contestants to be legally single. But what about the married beauty queen wannabes—who no…

Manisha Aggarwal-Schifellite

1/05/16 2:00PM

Comments (30)

Save

12/22/15

<i>Miss Universe</i> Producer Says Steve Harvey Is Welcome to Return as Host. Sweet.

Miss Universe Producer Says Steve Harvey Is Welcome to Return as Host. Sweet.

Since Steve Harvey only made a minor, no-big-deal screw-up at the Miss Universe 2015 pageant on Sunday (announcing th…

Save

A Night in Atlantic City for Miss America's 95th Birthday

“To Harrah’s. HARRAH’S!” slurred the woman getting on the mostly empty Greyhound bus to Atlantic City at 4 pm on…

Save

Russian Beauty Queen's Title Revoked Because Turns Out She's A Neo-Nazi

Olga Kuzkova is your average 21-year-old soccer fan turned beauty queen, except she also happens to be a neo-Nazi :(.

Save

Cheryl Burke Quits Miss USA Due to Donald Trump's Continued Existence

Cheryl Burke, the Dancing with the Stars performer who’d also agreed to co-host this year’s Miss USA Pageant with…

Save

NBC Cuts Ties With Donald Trump, For Obvious Reasons

CNN media reporter Brian Stelter is reporting that NBC won’t be airing the upcoming Miss USA pageant, one part of…

Save

Beauty Queen Died During Liposuction Procedure She Won As Prize

Catherine Cando, a 19-year-old Ecuadorian model who was crowned the Queen of Durán last fall, died during a…

Save

Town in Argentina Bans Beauty Pageants; Miss World Bans Bikinis

Some changes are coming in the world of beauty pageants.

Save

Female Students Twerk for Internships in University-Sponsored Pageant

For years, universities in the Czech Republic have held beauty pageants for their female students. The women who…

Save

Miss Honduras World and Her Sister Reported Missing

A 2014 Miss World contestant has been reported missing days before the start of the pageant.

Save

There She Is, Alternative Miss World

LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 18: Miss Zero+ is showered with confetti as she is crowned the winner of the Alternative…

Save

There She Is, Your Ideal: Miss America's Mean Girl History

We reported earlier this week that in spring 2013, Miss America Kira Kazantsev was kicked out of Hofstra…

Save

Miss America Admits To Hazing, But Not, Like, Super Bad Hazing

Yesterday, we reported that 2015 Miss America Kira Kazantsev was kicked out of her sorority for abusively hazing…

Save

Miss America Was Kicked Out of Her Sorority for Abusive Hazing

On paper, Miss America 2015 Kira Kazantsev reads like a forward-thinking person's dream of what a beauty queen could…

Save

Beauty Queen Flees Country After Officials Insisted She Get a Boob Job

A Burmese beauty queen was stripped of her title of Miss Asia Pacific World after pageant officials in Seoul found…

Tracie Egan Morrissey

8/29/14 12:30PM

Comments (145)

Save