Miss Teen USA is a beauty pageant that has been run since 1983 by the Miss Universe Organization for girls aged 14ā19 years old as of January 1st of the competition year. They must be US citizens, and cannot have been married, pregnant, or have children. Like its sister pageant Miss USA, it is televised on The CW television network starting in 2024, after being streamed online for several years. The pageants are currently operated by Thom Brodeur.
Prior to 1983, a beauty contest bestowing the title of Miss Teen USA was first held in 1959 as a mail-in photo contest by Teen magazine.
It next became an annual live stage event through the 1960s and in 1983, the pageant began being produced annually as part of the Miss Universe family of pageants. It was broadcast live on CBS until 2002 and then on NBC from 2003 to 2007. In March 2007, it was announced that the broadcast of the Miss Teen USA pageant on NBC had not been renewed, and that Miss Teen USA 2007 would be the final televised event.
From 2008 to 2015, the pageant was held at the Atlantis Paradise Island Resort, located in Nassau, Bahamas. Since 2016, the pageant has been held in the United States once more, and since 2018, it is held concurrently with its sister Miss USA pageant in a single city a few days before the start of Miss USA final competition.
Notable pageant winners include actresses Kelly Hu (1985, Hawaii), Bridgette Wilson (1990, Oregon), Charlotte Lopez (1993, Vermont), Vanessa Minnillo (1998, South Carolina) and Shelley Hennig (2004, Louisiana).
The current Miss Teen USA is Mailyn Marsh of Missouri, who was crowned on October 23, 2025 at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, Nevada.
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