NEW YORK – Vanessa Williams continues to conquer new frontiers. Williams became the first Black Miss America at the pageant ... surrounding unauthorized nude photos of her published in Penthouse ...

Follow the San Francisco native, Black Barbie collector and proud mom of two on Instagram and Twitter @janinerube Vanessa ... In 2015 Miss America publicly apologized to Williams for their part ...

On July 23, 1984, Vanessa Williams resigned ... revealed it would be publishing the nude photos Williams had taken years before. Once the Miss America Organization learned of this, they gave ...

Vanessa Williams competing and winning the Miss America pageant ... LauriPatterson/Getty Images She continued, "Once a week I do a roast chicken. I slice the chicken up and put it on top of ...

Forty years after a nude photo scandal forced Vanessa Williams to relinquish her Miss America crown ... she learned Penthouse had acquired nude photos of her that she believed had been destroyed.

Vanessa Williams is opening up about ... The actress reflected on her 1984 Miss America win and 10-month reign, which was cut short when nude photos she had taken years before were leaked to ...

However, shortly after being crowned Miss America in 1984, the model and mom of four learned those photos ... Williams started way before the photo scandal. "I have been friends with Vanessa ...

When Vanessa Williams was crowned Miss America, her life instantly changed ... received a tiara and began walking down a runway for photos. “I didn’t know what was the next step,” Williams ...

The actress, singer and former beauty queen opens up about finding decades of success after a difficult past in this week's cover story Vanessa ... Miss America publicly apologized to Williams ...