A row has erupted over the winner of this 12 months’s Miss France contest having brief hair.
Eve Gilles, who has a pixie reduce and was topped the winner at a ceremony in Dijon on Saturday, is receiving help on-line from politicians in France after messages criticising her hair had been posted on social media.
The 20-year-old is reportedly the primary contestant with brief hair ever to win the competitors, which has been working for greater than 100 years.
After her victory, she hailed a win for “diversity”, in accordance with French media experiences.
“No one should dictate who you are,” Le Monde quoted her as saying. “We’re used to seeing beautiful Misses with long hair, but I chose an androgynous look with short hair.”
She added that each “woman is different, we’re all unique”.
However, her win was criticised by some on-line, with one X person saying Miss France “is no longer a beauty contest but a woke contest based on inclusiveness”. Another wrote: “It is no longer beauty that we judge but rather the Woke ideology of this ultra-feminist woman.”
Supporting Gilles, Green MP Sandrine Rousseau wrote: “I’m shocked by the comments on #MissFrance2024 I didn’t imagine we were there. Our hair, and what we do with it, how we style it, is none of men’s business.”
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Fabien Roussel, nationwide secretary of the French Communist Party, additionally commented, writing: “Support for Eve Gilles, elected Miss France, who is already suffering the violence of a society which does not accept that women define themselves in all their diversity.”
Gilles was representing Nord-Pas de Calais, a area in northern France.
She was topped the winner in entrance of 5,000 pageant followers, with half the rating decided by viewers and the opposite half by a jury of seven girls, in accordance with Le Monde.
Source: information.sky.com”