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Bullies, body shaming, bathing suits: Miss America winners’ living nightmares

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Being topped Miss America was a lifelong dream for Caressa Cameron.

Nevertheless it grew to become a dwelling nightmare for her — and plenty of others who received the coveted title. 

Cameron, who was Miss America 2010 and Miss Virginia 2009, informed The Submit she felt bullied by then Miss America CEO Sam Haskell a month into her reign. (Haskell resigned from the group in 2017 after being accused of exchanging sexist and vulgar emails about previous contestants.)

“Sam and I’s relationship ended as rapidly because it began,” Cameron stated.

The 36-year-old stated she was informed she couldn’t invite a feminine mentor and pageant coach to her personal homecoming get together. 

“Sam stated, ‘If she’s attending, I’m not attending.’ I stated, ‘I’m not going to not invite somebody who was instrumental to my craft over somebody I simply met,” Cameron recalled.

Haskell and distinguished members of the Miss America board snubbed Cameron by not displaying as much as her get together, she claimed.

Cameron additionally recalled by chance receiving an e-mail by which Haskell allegedly made a snide comment about her mom in a single occasion asking,“Who does this girl assume she is?”

Even upholding her chosen platform — advocating for HIV/AIDS prevention — grew to become unattainable, Cameron stated, when the group barred her from touring to associated occasions. 


Carissa being crowned Miss America in 2010 on stage.
“You’re informed what to do and when to do it. That’s once I realized this isn’t what I assumed it was,” 2009 Miss America Caressa Cameron informed The Submit of the Miss America group.
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“I wasn’t given the time to do what I assumed the job was going to be. That was the cruel actuality,” Cameron stated. “You’re informed what to do and when to do it. That’s once I realized this isn’t what I assumed it was.”

She and greater than 20 different former crown holders disclose a long time of unhealthy conduct — bullying, physique shaming, racism and misogyny — inside America’s oldest magnificence pageant in “Secrets and techniques of Miss America,” out Monday, July 10, on A&E.

The docu-series particulars the unraveling of the 102-year-old pageant as soon as considered by 80 million individuals a yr, and its ongoing combat to remain related.

It additionally examines the whistleblower-leaked emails in 2017 which unearthed misogyny inside the board of administrators — resulting in Haskell’s exit, a turbulent 2018 takeover by Gretchen Carlson and the controversial banning of the swimsuit competitors that in the end led to Carlson’s takedown.


Caressa Cameron being crowned Miss America on stage in 2010.
Cameron (middle) recalled feeling bullied by Miss America execs almost a month into her reign.
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Caressa Cameron holding her crown.
Cameron was optimistic that the competitors would take a flip for the higher following Sam Haskell’s departure as CEO in 2017. As a substitute, she stated, the group grew to become extra divided than ever when Gretchen Carlson stepped in.
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“Secrets and techniques of Miss America” opens with Mallory Hagan, Miss America 2013 and a goal of Haskell’s disparaging feedback about her weight and intercourse life.

The Submit has reached out to Haskell for remark.

“It was about management. He [Haskell] controls the whole lot in everybody else’s life. When you go towards him you’re minimize out,” says Brent Adams, Haskell’s former assistant who helped carry the disparaging emails to gentle.  

Adams recollects within the first episode listening to Haskell humiliate Hagan behind her again in conferences with leisure ABC executives — a transfer that that allegedly thwarted the winner from showing on “Dancing with the Stars.” 


Mallory Hagan with her Miss America crown on stage in 2013.
Mallory Hagan, Miss America 2013, particulars being a goal of disparaging feedback about her weight and intercourse life within the docu-series.
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Mallory Hagen crowned Miss America in 2013.
Hagan speaks out within the sequence about having her popularity tarnished by Miss America execs and the way that hindered her from pursuing a profession outdoors of the group.
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“I used to be sitting within the workplace at ABC in LA  with excessive stage community executives and Sam was speaking about her making an attempt to hook up with [‘Bachelor’ host] Chris Harrison. Lots of people see by that, but it surely’s nonetheless very damaging to be disparaging somebody like that, particularly to excessive stage those that Mallory wished to work for,” Adams says within the sequence. 

“Sam allegedly went on to name me a whore and likewise trailer trash,” Hagan says on the present, lamenting how arduous it was to discover a profession outdoors of the group when her popularity was tarnished.

When Hagan and Claire Buffie Adkisson, Miss New York 2010, began their very own enterprise teaching and mentoring pageant opponents, Hagan claims, Haskell and the group went out of their strategy to forestall ladies from hiring them.

It took a extreme toll on the previous Miss America’s psychological well being.

“There was lots of time the place I didn’t need to be right here any extra,” Hagan says within the sequence.


Mallory Hagan and Brent Adams on the red carpet.
Brent Adams (with Hagan), former Miss America CEO Sam Haskell’s ex assistant, helped blow the whistle on the disparaging emails that led to Haskell’s resignation in 2017.
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“The worst second was, I drank lots of alcohol and I stood on prime of my constructing. And if it wasn’t for my relationship with my mother and father I most likely would have made a really totally different determination than I did,” a tearful Hagan says. (She declined to be interviewed for this story.)

She’s not the one one who says exhaustion and agony got here with the tiara and sash. Cameron, who’s black, informed The Submit of feeling like a goal for discrimination — claiming she was compelled to cut off her hair halfway by her first yr as Miss America as a result of the group refused her correct hair care. 

“I by no means felt uglier. It was very disheartening and it actually took a toll on my self-worth. Simply feeling remoted, unheard and struggling. I oftentimes felt like I couldn’t or shouldn’t converse up as a result of I didn’t need to rock the boat. I didn’t need to mess this up for the black ladies that have been coming behind me,” she says on the sequence. 

After the controversial emails went public in 2017, Hagan, Cameron and the quite a few different contestants felt vindicated. 


Cameron during swimsuit competition.
Cameron stated the swimsuit portion of the Miss America pageant ought to have been reimagined, not axed.
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Sam Haskell clapping
Sam Haskell resigned from Miss America in 2017.
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“Lastly individuals would perceive that I used to be being misrepresented by somebody who had much more energy and authority than I did,” Hagan says of Haskell’s resignation.

However issues took a flip for the more severe, Cameron informed The Submit.

Gretchen Carlson, Miss America 1989 and a former Fox Information anchor, took the reins from Haskell in 2018.

However the group reportedly remained in disarray, with contestants feeling way more divided — significantly in regards to the iconic swimsuit competitors.

Some, like Cameron, argued it ought to stay.

“When Gretchen got here in, she utterly dismantled the identification of the pageant,” Cameron informed The Submit. 


Gretchen Carlson on stage in green dress.
Gretchen Carlson, Miss America 1989 and a former Fox Information anchor, took over the competitors in 2018. Her management, nonetheless, was controversial. She stepped down in 2019.
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“When you’ve got a corporation that’s constructed on a practice — the swimsuit competitors — to utterly take that out … it’s like going to Ruth’s Chris and them saying, ‘Truly we don’t serve steak anymore.’ They’re a steak restaurant,” Cameron stated. 

In line with her, the swimsuit portion ought to have been reimagined, not axed.

“I positively assume there have been some issues that have been somewhat archaic about [scoring]. We shouldn’t simply be rail-thin supermodels — it must be a celebration of wholesome our bodies. That’s the place we might have finished higher. However as an alternative we pulled the entire thing and … [Carlson] informed us that the station that was purported to air the competitors that yr stated they wouldn’t air it due to the #MeToo motion if we included the swimsuit competitors.


Miss America contestants dining together at a restaurant with their sashes and crowns.
“Secrets and techniques of Miss America” particulars how Haskell allegedly made feedback about pageant winners and tried to pit contestants towards one another.
Ethan Miller

“It was a blatant lie … individuals have been like, ‘You’ll be able to’t belief her,’” Cameron informed The Submit.

“Your complete management and path of the group is being filtered by [Carlson’s] private model,” a former board member informed The Submit in 2020. “The #MeToo motion isn’t the model of the Miss America group. The truth that they’re being conflated is an issue.”

“Ms. Carlson misled nobody, interval,” stated Carlson’s lawyer Bruce S. Rosen in an e-mail.


Gretchen Carlson and Miss America contestants on stage.
“When Gretchen got here in, she utterly dismantled the identification of the pageant. We had some hiccups to attending to the place we at the moment are,” Cameron informed The Submit of Carlson (in pink).
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Carlson stepped down that yr, however Hilary Levey Friedman, creator of “Right here She Is: The Sophisticated Reign of the Magnificence Pageant in America,” informed The Submit that the adjustments have rocked the competitors’s core identification.

“I believe it’s very related for the younger ladies who compete,” the creator stated. “Do I believe it can ever be related the best way it was within the ’40s, ’50s ’60s and ’70s? No.” 

Cameron, who runs an occasion planning enterprise out of Virginia and infrequently judges magnificence pageants, stated her final official position for the Miss America group was on the Variety Fairness and Inclusion job drive.

Whereas she now not has an official position, she stays hopeful.


Miss America contestants gather together with sashes and crowns holding an ice cream sundae.
Miss America’s iconic Atlantic Metropolis house base for the annual competitors was moved to Mohegan Solar in 2019.
Ethan Miller

 “We have to rebrand in a approach that reveals those that Miss America is trendy and nonetheless related,” Cameron informed The Submit.

“Our greatest years might be forward if we permit them to be.”

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