Miss France 2025 responds to derogatory remarks about her age

This is a first. A thirty-year-old was elected Miss France 2025, this Saturday, December 14, at Futuroscope in Poitiers. Angélique Angarni-Filopon, Miss Martinique 2024 and the oldest candidate in the history of the competition, was crowned French beauty queen, at the age of 34. A figure that is causing a lot of ink to flow in the media and just as much talk on social networks.

Remarks that the flight attendant brushes aside. “I am constantly reminded of my age. I believe it is well preserved,” she said during the press conference which followed the broadcast, on the night of Saturday December 14 to Sunday December 15, as reported by the local Vienna newspaper Center Presse. At ease in her thirties, Angélique Angarni-Filopon even claims to be living her best decade, regardless of those who consider her “too old” to play her role as Miss. “34 is young. They say that your thirties are the best years, I can confirm it,” added the woman who is followed by more than 224,000 subscribers on Instagram.

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“No expiration date”

Does this competition, which has long been criticized for promoting youthism, finally admit that age is not an obstacle to beauty? For two years, an overhaul of its regulations has been implemented, moving slowly in this direction, under pressure from critics. New, unprecedented measures have been applied, such as the lifting of any age limit (which was previously a maximum of 24 years) or the opening of applications to married women and mothers. “When the age limit was lifted, I decided to try my luck again,” Angélique Angarni-Filopon confided during a press conference, reported AFP in a December 11 dispatch.

The one who was elected first runner-up to Miss Martinique in 2011 affirmed that her ambition was still as strong as ever, more than 10 years later. “The dream has not left me. At 34, I have a different outlook on life and I want to be an inspiring woman on a large scale. I prove that there is no expiration date for women who dream of becoming Miss France,” she continued.

Despite recent advances in the regulations and the election of this new Miss France which shakes up the codes, the wave of cyberharassment that the latter suffered regarding her age proves to what extent the inclusion of all generations in this competition n It's still in its infancy. Before her, Miss Germany 2024, aged 39 at the time of her election, had also been the victim of a flood of hatred on the Internet.