Guest of the political program “Facing the territories” of TV5 Monde, Minister Elisabeth Moreno spoke about the rules of the Miss France competition that she considers “has been”.
The Miss France contest has been making a lot of talk lately. This Thursday, October 21, it was the turn of the Minister Delegate for Gender Equality Élisabeth Moreno to speak on the subject in the program Facing the Territories, broadcast on TV5 Monde. “Miss France is part of our traditions, of our culture “, she asserted. “What questions me are the rules, which I find completely has been. Why can’t a Miss France be ironic? Why is it that a candidate for Miss France who poses topless to fight against breast cancer is excluded Why a Miss France could not be a mom?“, she added. According to Elisabeth Moreno,”the rules are completely out of date and it is high time they changed.“
The competition is regularly pinned for its strict requirements. As a reminder, in order to participate in the Miss France contest, candidates must not be over 25 years old. They cannot be married or in civil partnership. They are required to be a minimum height of 1.70m without heels and young women cannot have tattoos or piercings.
The competition sued by a feminist association
On October 18, 2021, the Dare feminism association announced that it had taken legal action. The organization considers the competition sexist and believes that it violates labor law. For her part, Alexia Laroche-Joubert, the new president of the company Miss France, is convinced “Miss France is a feminist program!” In an interview granted in the newspaper Le Parisien she expressed her desire to change the ceremony: “We were too in a Victoria’s Secret and modeling show. I don’t want that anymore.“