the ex-Miss France balance dry on the famous beauty contest

“Pestilences.” Darker stories under a layer of glitter? On December 11, 1999, Sonia Rolland, then Miss Burgundy, was crowned Miss France. For this first Miss with African origins, the journey was strewn with pitfalls, in particular because of the racism she suffered. It is for this reason that the former Franco-Rwandan Miss who became a director wanted to transpose the story of her election to the screen in a TV movie. currently filming. The opportunity for her to return to this unique adventure, far from what viewers can sometimes imagine.

“It is a universe that resembles society”she assured in an interview with Free Charente behind the scenes of this show that no one can know until they’ve been on it. If the Misses can give the impression of being a united group, quite the contrary, clans can quickly form. There is the one “favorites, pests, super nice people who are too altruistic” or even “rebels who wonder what they’re doing there”, of which Sonia Rolland considers herself to have been a part.

The very special journey of Sonia Rolland

“When it is announced that Miss Bourgogne has won, I no longer see anything, no longer hear anything. I am intoxicated by this victory and think of my mother’s Rwanda. Present in the room, she said to me: ‘You are my revenge on life'”, revealed Sonia Rolland to Current wife in 2019. Despite the doubts, the former Miss had “very specific reasons” to participate in the contest. “Galvanized” by her entourage, her neighborhood, the Franco-Rwandan woman sees the competition as a “opportunity for a life change” for “access a little faster to dreams” which seemed to him “completely inaccessible”. Despite the victory, the Miss suffers insults, humiliations and attempts to intimidate against which she is now proud to have resisted. “My advice to girls today: don’t give up. Our own enemy is ourselves. You have to allow yourself to dream big”she assured Current wife.