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Beauty pageantMiss Guadeloupe, Indira Ampiot, elected Miss France 2023
Miss Guadeloupe, Indira Ampiot, was crowned this Saturday, December 17, 2022 in Châteauroux.
Indira Ampiot, Miss Guadeloupe, receives her crown from Diane Leyre, miss France 2022.
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Indira Ampiot, Miss Guadeloupe, was crowned Miss France 2023 on the night of Saturday to Sunday in Châteauroux, in the center of France, at the end of a competition which this year widened its selection criteria to modernize an image often decried.
The 18-year-old, a communications student from the French Caribbean island, was chosen 50/50 by viewers of television channel TF1, which broadcast the ceremony live, and by a jury of seven. personalities. “I’m really living a waking dream,” said the new Miss France, moved, with a radiant face, as she received the crown from the hands of the holder in 2022, Diane Leyre, in front of some 3,500 spectators in the room and millions of viewers.
Indira Ampiot had explained, during her presentation during the competition, that she particularly wanted to devote her mandate to supporting women with cancer. She had concluded her speech by dreaming of a Miss France crown on her head and a victory for the French football team on Sunday, concluding with a resounding “Allez les Bleus!”. Present in the audience, the mother of the new Miss France might not hold back her tears.
Flexible selection criteria
“It’s a wonderful moment that we are living,” testified Béatrice Ampiot to AFP. “Thank you to the French people in mainland France who voted for her, thank you to those overseas who supported her tirelessly!” In terms of form, the evening remained faithful to the classics of the genre, with its polished choreographies and its unmissable parades in swimsuits and evening dresses.
For this edition, the famous competition had decided to relax its selection criteria. Until then, only women between 18 and 24 years old, having no children and measuring at least 1.70 m might claim the envied title. If the minimum size remains, the competition is now open to all women over 18, without age limit, including married, with or without children. A rule that even applies to transgender women, “from the moment the candidate has a female civil status”, according to Alexia Laroche-Joubert, new president of the Miss France society.
Another innovation: visible tattoos are now allowed. This development has not convinced the association Osez le féminisme, which sees it as “a stroke of white paint on a moldy wall”, according to its spokesperson Fabienne El Khoury.
(AFP)