This year's winner will be crowned on Saturday ... "We didn't have to have the talent. [In] Miss America you need a talent. Miss USA you're talentless. You just show up," she said.

PsychGuides.com found that the only decades when the average U.S. woman and the Miss America winners fell in the same range were in the 1940s and ‘50s. The graph shows that over the years ...

The Miss America beauty pageant looks ... the original in another fascinating way - the winners' body types have gotten much thinner over the years, according to educational website PsychGuides ...

There was even a “Rule 7,” abandoned in 1940, that stated that Miss America contestants had to be “of good health and of the white race.” The winner spent the year doing community service ...

But what’s it really like to hear your name called as the winner and ... crowning moment as Miss America during an interview with AL.com. Although it happened about 30 years ago, Whitestone ...

"Miss America is someone who needs to educate," said the 24-year-old PharmD student Joelle Goldstein is a Senior News Editor on the TV team for PEOPLE Digital. She has been with the brand since ...

Further, every Miss America state titleholder must select a platform for a social cause that is important to her. She spends her year's service as a state winner advocating her issue. On the ...

A photo of the first Miss America winner, Margaret Gorman ... (Fewer than ten million viewers tuned in last year.) But happily for those still warmed by that old queen-for-a-year magic, the ...