beauty pageant

A man who identifies as a woman was recently crowned Miss Trans USA 2024, saying the moment was “surreal.”

A 71-year-old beauty pageant contestant has made history as the oldest woman to participate in the Miss Texas USA competition.

In a major twist on traditional beauty pageants, the inaugural “Miss AI” pageant is showcasing contestants who exist solely in the digital realm, created using generative AI. Although the women may be purely digital, in the face of beauty pageants selecting transgender winners, Miss AI may be a refreshing return to traditional beauty standards.

The Miss Maryland USA beauty pageant has crowned its first-ever transgender winner, with contestant Bailey Anne Kennedy taking the top prize this week.

Noelia Voigt, last year’s winner of the Miss USA pageant, resigned her position this week and is now alleging she suffered from “bullying and harassment” during her tenure.

The Ukraine-born woman recently crowned Miss Japan has relinquished the title after a report alleged that she had an affair with a married man who is an influencer and doctor.

A teenage Georgia pageant queen has been arrested and charged with the murder of a baby after he was taken to the emergency room while “unresponsive” and later died.

The company that owns the Miss Universe pageant filed for bankruptcy Thursday, but its upcoming pageant will go on as planned.

Miss Hawaii USA’s breathtaking banyan tree outfit won best state costume award on Wednesday in Reno, Nevada, as she paid tribute to Lahaina.

The Miss Universe Organization (MUO) announced Saturday it has cut all ties with PT Capella Swastika Karya, the beauty products company that runs the Indonesian Miss Universe Pageant, due to allegations of sexual harassment against contestants.

The Miss Universe bosses welcome transgenders competing in their pageant, but those individuals must have undergone “gender-affirming surgery” to do so, the Daily Mail reported Thursday.

Brían Nguyen, a biological male who identifies as female has won Miss Greater Derry 2023 in New Hampshire, making Nguyen the first transgender titleholder within the Miss America Organization.

Miss Argentina and Miss Puerto Rico revealed on Instagram that they recently had a secret wedding.

The managers of the Miss USA beauty pageant have been suspended amid accusations that they somehow rigged the result of the 2022 event.

Organizers of a camel beauty pageant taking place near Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, this week disqualified at least 43 participants on Tuesday for altering their camel contestants’ appearance “in various ways including injecting Botox into their lips,” Al Arabiya reported. “Other

Sri Lankan police arrested the reigning “Mrs. World” on assault charges Thursday after she forcibly removed the crown from the head of the new “Mrs. Sri Lanka” this week.

Sri Lanka’s Mrs. World, Caroline Jurie, was arrested Thursday following a fight during the crowning of Mrs. Sri Lanka 2021.

“Miss Sri Lanka” winner Pushpika De Silva was taken to the hospital Sunday night, after another pageant winner leaped onto the stage to take her crown.

Kataluna Enriquez, a biological male who identifies as a woman, has been crowned Miss Silver State USA, which is described as the “biggest preliminary competition for the Miss Nevada USA pageant.”

A man living as a woman but who still has male genitalia filed a complaint against a Canadian beauty pageant for refusing to let him compete.

A biological male who identifies as a woman, has filed a lawsuit to force the Miss Oregon pageant to allow him to compete in the contest as a woman.

Katie Williams is speaking out about being cut from the Ms. America pageant because of her conservative views and support of President Trump.

Kathy Zhu, a student from the University of Michigan, was stripped of her Miss Michigan title over “offensive” social media posts. The student says that she is being discriminated against over her conservative views.

Venezuelan beauty queen and former Miss Universe Dayana Mendoza thanked President Donald Trump in an interview this weekend for his role in trying to remove the country’s socialist regime from power.

A former Miss Iraq fled the country last week, reports confirmed this week, after receiving numerous death threats and observing high-profile assassinations by Islamic fundamentalists of those within the beauty industry.

Venezuela’s courts have ordered the organizing body behind the famous “Miss Venezuela” beauty pageant reinstated over a week after it was suspended over a lawsuit.

A Venezuelan court suspended the upcoming “Miss Venezuela” beauty pageant on Monday after the winner of last year’s contest launched a legal case against the competition’s organizers.

Their hair styled and make-up applied, a group of elderly women carefully take to a red carpet catwalk, waving, blowing kisses and posing for pictures to cheering crowds.

In the late 1990s, as President Bill Clinton was about to face the biggest sex scandal of his political career over his affair with Monica Lewinsky, a beauty queen named Alicia Machado caused a major scandal by gaining a large amount of weight after winning the Miss Universe crown.

For the first time in over forty years, it was announced that Iraq has crowned its first beauty queen.

PATTAYA, Thailand – Filipina Trixie Maristela was crowned Miss International Queen 2015 on Friday at a contest in Thailand billed as the world’s largest transgender pageant. The 29-year-old beat 26 other competitors for the coveted crown, with second and third

Last Sunday, Manuel Gonzales, a 24-year-old social communicator competing under the nom-de-guerre of Argenis Gonzalez, was crowned Miss Gay Venezuela.

A transgender beauty pageant hosted by former UKIP candidate Kellie Maloney has upset transgender campaigners (nothing new there) for offering cosmetic, or “gender-reassignment,” surgery as a prize. Critics argue that surgery should be a “right” and “basic health care” rather