Madison Marsh, an Air Force officer and 2024 Miss America, breaks down the biggest pageant misconceptions and why she's fighting for pancreatic cancer research funding.
Madison Marsh, the first active-duty Air Force officer to be crowned Miss America, is challenging common misinterpretations of the pageantry world she has grown to love. Marsh, 23, who previously held the title of Miss Colorado before earning 2024 Miss America, told Fox News Digital that beauty pageants aren't just about the glitz and glam so often featured in Hollywood films and on television screens.
want people to remember that this year, like even though I'm wearing this, I still get to serve in the Air Force, I still get to serve in my nonprofit or getting to serve with Pam Khan for a cause that is so important, like pancreatic cancer. It goes so far beyond the word pageant.' Pancreatic cancer is a cause she's been an active advocate for since Marsh lost her mother, Whitney, to the disease in 2018 at age 41.
We're also calling on Congress whenever we're meeting with these members to raise the budgets for the National Institute of Health, up to $51.3 billion in the National Cancer Institute to $7.934 billion,' Marsh said.
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