The world may have grown accustomed to seeing Olympic gymnasts wearing leotards as they compete for the highest honor in the sport, but these garments haven’t always been the first pick for women.

In this era of yoga pants, it’s easy to forget the leotard—early active-wear that required the confidence of a naked emperor. Named after Jules Léotard, a 19th-century French acrobat (and a man), the ...

IT was the fashion climax to the whole sweat-slicked, muscle-thumping show -- Madonna on all fours, crawling cheetah-like down the stage in lustrous Lycra, with those thundering thighs and that winged ...

This month, the gymnastics team from the University of Pittsburgh debuted a leotard with "BLM" bejeweled down the sleeve at a competition against Temple University that they declared a "Until We Unite ...

For the fifth time in her career, Simone Biles took the top honor at the U.S. National Gymnastics Championships — but in a first for her (or any other female gymnast in the last 24 years), she did it ...

"BABY! GET HERE ALREADY!" Shawn Johnson said, eager for the arrival of her first child Georgia Slater is a staff editor on the Parents team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2018. Her ...

Five-time Olympic medalist Simone Biles explained why her detractors inspired her to wear the goat design on her leotard Simone Biles is shutting down her haters with help from a bedazzled leotard.

Justin Timberlake says that, in order to convince Beyoncé to participate in a now-legendary 2008 sketch on Saturday Night Live, he had to dress up like the superstar, leotard and all. The sketch, ...