Read previewBoyfriends and fiancés no longer have to be kept secret if you're Miss America.
"I'm just as proud being a fiancée as I am being Miss America," Marsh told BI.
In "Secrets of Miss America," past winners Mallory Hagan, Savvy Shields Wolfe, and Betty Maxwell described the "anti-boyfriend" policies that were enacted by former CEO Sam Haskell, who resigned in 2017 after vulgar internal emails he wrote about past Miss America winners were leaked to the press.
"It was made clear that Sam was in charge, and what he said went, and boyfriends were not allowed to exist when you're Miss America," she added.
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