Miss France: Iris Mittenaere pleads for a change of “all the rules”

She was elected by the French before conquering the world. Iris Mittenaere is once again pleading for the beauty pageant she won in 2016 to evolve. “We have to abolish all the rules, of course. Like Miss Universe did”, hammers the Northerner in Leisure TV, this week. “Let the French choose their Miss France. And to leave them completely free of their choice, there should be no filters from the start of the selections”, she assures.

A reaction to the controversies which, again this year, did not spare the competition, won on December 11 by Parisian Diane Leyre. The Dare feminism association has gone so far as to seize the industrial tribunal to denounce the selection criteria it judges “sexist”, citing discrimination in hiring. At the head of the new company Miss France since October, Alexia Laroche-Joubert repeats that it is a “feminist program”. The adjective is omnipresent in every intervention of Miss France 2022 since her coronation.

Last year, the eviction of a candidate for Miss Guadeloupe had caused a stir. The young woman had posed topless as part of a campaign for the fight against breast cancer, which is prohibited by the competition rules. “For me, it is above all necessary to change the rules”, then replied Iris Mittenaere. “That we delete the part on the naked photos, provided they are not pornographic. Just like the one on the imposed minimum size of 1m70 or the one on the tattoos. Even surgery should not be a brake, in particular to open the competition to transgender people “, had she insisted in The Parisian in August 2020.

Arguments on which Alexia Laroche-Joubert returned during the press conference for the election of Miss France 2022. The producer admitted that “Some criteria may perhaps seem a little outdated. Maybe the word celibate was not understood well, maybe on the tattoos we were a little too restrictive. We need to talk to the people about it. committees, which make the first selections “. A few weeks later, she announced that transgender candidates could compete. What if the revolution was underway at the Misses?