A few more weeks before the election of Miss France 2025. It is in fact on December 14 that the competition will be held to elect a new French beauty queen. For several days, the 30 candidates for the election have been in Abidjan (Ivory Coast) for the famous preparation trip.
Eve Gilles, the current Miss France, is also there to chaperone them and help them be at their best on the big day. Between two preparations, the 21-year-old young woman spoke to Le Parisien, the opportunity to say more about the illness she suffers from.
Eve Gilles suffering from an invisible illness
On October 25, Eve Gilles (Miss France 2024) gave an interview to the media Konbini. Against all expectations, the pretty brunette revealed that she suffered from a rare and invisible disease, paroxysmal dyskinesia.
“Today, what pushes me to speak out is not just to make my illness known. It's really to be a hope for these people who have invisible illnesses and who are afraid of dreaming too big.”, she affirmed, she who was subject to a medical background before a diagnosis is made of his symptoms.
“When I was eight years old, I felt that I didn't control my body over certain movements” she remembers. It was at the age of 14 that a neurologist finally told her that she had this rare disease which affects between one person in 150,000 and one person in 1 million.
Et the young woman describing her symptoms : “It can be an arm that goes inward. It can be all over the body or even on the face. That's why often, when I have a seizure, I close my eyes. I don't want that people see me like that.“
A new revelation
During the candidates' preparation trip to Abidjan (Ivory Coast), Eve Gilles spoke to our colleagues from Le Parisien. “I received a lot of messages and it was the first time I spoke to people with the same thing. I read them all, even if I can't respond to everyone. It made me a lot of good” she says about her interview which has been viewed millions of times.
And to admit: “People have thanked me because they didn't know what they were suffering from and discovered it. One girl told me that her father had actions for forty years that he couldn't control and that I I put words to her questions, adds the young woman. The fact that the illness does not prevent me from living my dreams also affected me.
We learn that Miss France was then contacted to come and speak to patients also suffering from “invisible illnesses”which she intends to do at the end of her reign.
“Self-acceptance in all its forms is not just a body. It is also internal. You have to accept your past, your history” concludes Eve Gilles.
