This Saturday, December 16, Ève Gilles was crowned Miss France 2024 at the Zénith in Dijon, succeeding Indira Ampiot. Unfortunately, the representative of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region was the victim of wave of hatred on social networks. The reason ? Some observers strongly criticized his short hair. An ordeal that the young woman faced during her time in the studios of RFMthis Monday, December 18. “It’s an oppressive feeling, it’s like I have a huge tsunami behind methat I didn’t see it coming and that my only fear was that it would swallow me up.”she indicated, nevertheless specifying that she could count on the teams of the Miss France organization to overcome it: “I am so well accompanied that I think he will leave as quickly as he arrived.”
In an interview given to Parisianthis Monday, December 18, Ève Gilles also responded to her detractors. “I stopped looking at these comments saying that I have no shape, that thing, that thing… […] Being criticized about my hair doesn’t bother me, I chose it like that and I can change”she explained, before concluding: “But I don’t choose my body. I don’t choose my shapes. The metabolism that I have, I don’t choose it. These are things, we learn to live with them.” A statement which proves that she accepts herself as she is, despite criticism.
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This other Miss who was criticized for her short hair
If Ève Gilles is the first woman with short hair to win the Miss France competition, she is not the first to attempt the adventure. This title goes to Karine Lherme, a candidate who tried her luck during the Miss France 2000 promotion. The one who represented the title Miss Albigeois, since renamed Miss Midi-Pyrénées, had also been the victim of criticism. A situation that she mentioned during an interview with TV Mag, December 13. “I don’t know how short hair is perceived today within the Miss France organization but, in my time, they didn’t really like it. I remember that Geneviève de Fontenay made me think“she assured.
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