“You’re fat, you’re ugly”, tearful Vaimalama Chaves in DALS

This Friday, October 1, TF1 broadcast the third premium of “Dance with the stars”. The opportunity for the eleven candidates still in the running to meet on the floor of the emblematic studio 217. The celebrities, accompanied by their dancers, competed in talent and dazzled the four members of the jury, namely Jean-Paul Gaultier , Denitsa Ikonomova, François Alu and Chris Marques. Between tears, laughter and dancing … the emotion was at the rendezvous during this evening. And for good reason, after his performance, Vaimalama Chaves burst into tears. The young woman danced with her partner, Christian Millette, on Yseult’s title, entitled “Corps”. A song that touches her particularly since the former Miss France was the victim of school harassment when she was younger. After a sensual and sensitive rumba, the pressure fell and the Miss France 2019 could not hide her emotion. “These are all the traumas that I have experienced as a woman and that I am not alone to experience. Thanks to Christian, I was able to free myself from it all“, she explained on the set of” Dance with the stars. “Confidences that have both upset the judges, but also the public.

“There is no place for the weak”

Already, in the tape recorder which summed up the intense week of preparation, Vaimalama Chaves was on the verge of tears when he discovered the song on which she was going to perform her performance. “When I went to college, I was the little curler with braces and severe acne. At first, I didn’t really have a look at my body, just that of others“, she explained facing the camera. Listening to her partner and touched by his sensitivity, Christian Millette questioned the candidate about her past traumas.”There is no room for the weak. This sentence brings me back to the inappropriate comments I may have received while growing up.“, then confided Vaimalama Chaves, before continuing:” ‘You’re fat, you’re ugly, you won’t get far. ‘ When the opinion we have of you, that’s it, well, it hurts.“Terrible words that still haunt the sublime young woman.

Despite this great performance and the earthquake of emotions that weighed on the set of “Dance with the stars”, Vaimalama Chaves did not collect enough votes to qualify directly for the following week. She was therefore on waivers with her partner. And if the viewers decided to give Jean-Baptiste Maunier another chance, it was ultimately the jury which granted Vaimalama Chaves to continue the adventure. The former candidate of “Koh-Lanta”, Moussa, was eliminated at the end of this third bonus.