For a surprise, it’s a big surprise! This Thursday, June 27, the new issue of the magazine Gala informs us that Malika Ménard is preparing to get married! Indeed, our Miss France 2010 found love again with a certain Karim, a 50-year-old Belgian-Moroccan businessman. And she didn’t hesitate to say yes to him when he asked for her hand.
Our colleagues argue that the union should not delay and even be held in “the coming days” in Tarifa, Spain, after only a handful of months of engagement. Because it was on March 8 that Karim proposed, at the Shangri-La hotel in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. For the occasion, he had booked a suite with a terrace and a view of the Seine and even called on a harp player and a starred chef. The date of March 8 is also symbolic for the entrepreneur since it is Women’s Day and “Malika is an activist and a strong woman“, in her eyes. The beauty queen did not expect anything, even when she found herself blindfolded upon arriving at the hotel. But the surprise of discovering her man on one knee and a ring in his hands was quickly swept away by a feeling of intense happiness.An unforgettable moment“, remembered Malika Ménard for Gala.
A meeting thanks to mutual friends
The pretty 37-year-old brunette was careful not to share the news and even to announce that she was in a relationship with Karim. However, she has indeed been in love for less than a year now. It was in Paris, in a restaurant near the Eiffel Tower that they met., through mutual friends who had the good idea of making their paths cross. “Our friends had planned everything, a small table in a nice restaurant with a view of the Eiffel Tower, it was perfect“, said Karim, already married in the past and a father.
After this candlelit dinner where the magic happens, Karim asks Malika’s number. The day after they met, he sent her a first text message and sent her a bouquet of roses. That’s it, Miss France is charmed. “His patience and sincere interest made the difference“, she confided. Things came to fruition one evening in November, for Karim’s birthday, when they exchanged their first kiss. Everything then happened very quickly: the businessman left Morocco for settling down with Malika before they find a new apartment together. Now heading to the altar to begin the rest of their lives!
