Marine Lorphelin, Miss France 2013 and doctor, wants Miss France to modernize. At the “Parisian”, the medical columnist explained how she saw the evolution of the competition.
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Marine Lorphelin could shout “down the beauty queens”!
Indeed, Miss France in 2013 and the first Dauphine of Miss World hates this expression, which she finds outdated.
However, Marine Lorphelin does not regret having been elected: it changed her life. And that is why she is interested in the future of the Miss competition.
Moreover, the young woman, who defended her doctoral thesis in medicine in March this year and is a columnist on France 5 in “The Health Magazine” and animator of “Take you”, has her opinion on the way in which the Miss competition should continue to evolve.
At the “Parisian”, the former Miss Saône-et-Loire, a scholarship when she started medicine, says that she feels “sometimes still impostor syndrome”. But the hard worker realizes that it is not relevant to oppose beauty and intelligence.
Also, it is convinced that it is important that the Miss France competition continues on its momentum of modernization. “I still think that today, with all societal changes, and the need to strengthen the place of women, after sexism and #MeToo, it is important that the competition continues to evolve,” she specifies on a daily basis.
And to describe the miss she calls for her wishes: “A miss is an ambassador who will defend social projects rather than a beauty queen”.
From queen to ambassador, we could see there a loss of influence. On the contrary, Marine Lorphelin sees it as an opportunity to do it useful and embody a contemporary model for women. And the idea is not eccentric: the sports doctor takes for example the Netherlands where the winners are chosen according to their commitments.
“There are always these aesthetic codes when we could go beyond”, regrets that which entrusted that as Miss it “often lost in this role of representation” which, she says, diluted her “personality” and her “values to please the greatest number”. Resuming his medical studies was a way to “find meaning in life”, she explains. A goal she therefore wishes to future miss.
