Julie Dupont, 26, was elected Miss Île-de-France 2024 this Saturday, October 12. The journalist will try to win the Miss France crown in December to succeed Ève Gilles.
Two new regional misses were elected this Saturday, October 12. In Île-de-France, it was Julie Dupont who won the sash and the crown, entry tickets for the final of the Miss France 2025 competition, which will take place on December 14 at the Arena Futuroscope. The young woman, resident of Puteaux, in Hauts-de-Seine, is 26 years old. She joins the 26 other misses already elected to want to take Eve Gilles’ place next year. Julie Dupont is a journalist, camera editor at Webedia. She completed a master’s degree in journalism after starting her higher studies in the United States, in Washington DC. In a short video posted on the Instagram account of the Miss Île-de-France committee, she says she has “the chance to live [sa] passion”. To describe herself, Julie Dupont also says “selfless and honest”. “I don’t keep my tongue in my pocket!”she warns.
As Miss Île-de-France, Julie Dupont says goodbye to her childhood complexes
For this beauty contest, Julie Dupont chose to proudly display her afro cut. “Every year I watch the show with my family and it’s true that I wanted to represent a category of women that we don’t often see in the competition. Hence the afro cut that I really wanted to have during the elections and various events”she said, still in a video posted on Instagram. During the Miss Hauts-de-Seine competition, in which she finished first runner-up last June, Julie Dupont explained her motivations for competing: “It would be an opportunity for me to highlight a cause that is close to my heart: diversity in the media. I have not always been very comfortable with my afro and it is certain that little Julie full of complexes would have loved to see a woman who looks like her in this environment.”
Julie Dupont wants to represent the modern woman as Miss
For the journalist who claims her “Franco-African origins”, “like Sonia Rolland”Miss France 2000, being Miss is not “not just a little girl’s dream, but rather a woman’s dream.” “A miss is an ambitious woman, a committed woman. And it is this modernity that I would like to represent”she said bluntly during the Miss Hauts-de-Seine election. She will undoubtedly be able to maintain this enthusiasm to try to steal the Miss France 2025 crown at the end of the year.
Article written in collaboration with 6Médias.
