Updated on Tuesday, December 19, 2023 – 10:06 am
“She has nothing to do with Miss France,” is one of the most frequently voiced criticisms of Ve Gilles' choice.
“She looks nothing like Miss France” Write about on social networks see Gilles (20), representative of Nord-Pas-de-Calais, who was there at the time crowned the most beautiful of the Gallus Pass. In this context, one might ask what the necessary characteristics should be to participate in a competition of these characteristics. The controversy is that for the first time in the 103-year history of the competition a an “androgynous” representative, Because she wears her hair in a pixie cut and a priori doesn't have one Curves are considered “traditional”. In short, it is the antipode of Gisele Bündchen or Kendall Jenner.
Ve was clear from the start. As he confessed after the transfer of power Indira Ampiot, Miss France 2023: “Nobody should tell you who you are (…) Every woman is different, We are all unique.” Knowing that she would be lucky, she revealed another time that “we are used to seeing beautiful ladies with long hair, but I went for an androgynous look with short hair.” At the competition held last Saturday evening in Dijon, he came third in the public vote, but The jury awarded her first place. Overall, they were 7.5 million viewers those who watched the show on television.
The controversy When it comes to the traditional concept of beauty, it is once again in the foreground. Among the public faces who have spoken out Your support for the winner The deputies appear Karima Delli (44) and Sandrine Rousseau (51), the latter declaring: “Then in France in 2023 we will measure progress in terms of respect for women by this.” the length of your hair? The idea of the chairman of the Ecological Europe Party of the Greens (EE-LV) is one of feminist representatives The country's most famous symbol also bears the pixie style and was built as one of the country's landmarks French #MeToo movement.
Given a social event of this magnitude Criticism has increased under the impunity that the anonymity of social networks grants. Countless people have seen Gilles as the perfect character glorify the Wokism. Via X (formerly Twitter), several users made it clear that “Miss France is no longer a beauty pageant, but a competition woke up based on inclusion”, another expressed his hatred by saying that he “doesn’t look like a Miss France,” someone stated that “we don’t care about his haircut, but the androgynous body is obviously there to serve as a wake-up caller” and another comment accused the winner of “instilling Wokist values in society.” Beauty standards are once again the subject of debate.
In the midst of all this excitement, Fabien Roussel (54), national secretary of the Communist Party, has emphasized his support for the winner, “who already suffers from violence a society that does not accept women defining themselves in all their diversity.” Also the right-wing extremist leader Marine Le Pen (55) congratulated Gilles on X.
Eve Gilles He was born in Dunkirk and has two sisters. greater. The parents of Miss France 2024, Edith and Bruno, originally from Réunion, revealed to Gala magazine that their daughter “had long hair, but yes he had done it long before he showed up to his first regional competition” and regarding his body he said: “It's in his nature and the fact that I have done a lot of sports since I was a child like horse riding, dancing, athletics… has led to this very muscular And not only does she eat well, she also has a huge sweet tooth, she loves good food.” Miss France 2024 is studying mathematics and computer science with application to human and social sciences.