In an interview with Malika Ménard for her show School memorieson January 18, 2025, Nathalie Marquay looked back on her childhood and her relationship with schooling. The opportunity to address the subject of family, in particular his broken relationship with his brother.
She will forever remain the very first Miss France elected on television. Crowned in 1986, Nathalie Marquay represented Alsace in the famous beauty contest then broadcast on FR3. Since her year of reign almost 40 years ago, the widow of Jean-Pierre Pernaut has been a host, columnist, candidate for reality TV and adventure games… But also an actress in series, notably in Under the sun et Navarro. A busy career for the native of Comines in the North, who recently participated in the survival show The Island on M6. The opportunity for the former beauty queen, mother of Lou and Tom, to grant an interview to Malika Ménard, in her format School memories published on January 18, 2025, in which his childhood, his relationship with school and authority, his temperament as a teenager but also his current links with his family were discussed.
Nathalie Marquay grew up in Alsace
And if Nathalie Marquay qualifies “crazy love” her relationship with her older sister Myriam, it seems that relations are much more relaxed with her brother. “Unfortunately, we haven’t spoken for 7-8 years”she revealed, evasively, to Malika Ménard, herself a former Miss France 2010 and now a presenter. It also seems that his family preferred to remain anonymous. If we know the life of Nathalie Marquay since her beginnings as a beauty queen, very little has filtered out about her brother or sister, with whom she grew up in Wittenheim, in the suburbs of Mulhouse. “My sister and my parents still live in Alsace”, she informed the media Maxi Flash, on February 19, 2024, on the occasion of the release of his book A sign from you (ed. G. Trédaniel).
This runaway that Nathalie Marquay did at 12 years old
In her younger years, Nathalie Marquay was more of a rebellious student, resistant to authority and fond of truant from school. His father was a mechanic for Renault and his mother was “housekeeping hostess” at the hospital. “I was an enfant terrible, raised rough – they were right. I couldn’t stand orders. It’s true that I wasn’t allowed to go out with friends, even though they all gathered in front of At my house. […] I had to do the ironing, work on my lessons…”, she said on the show School memories. A sign of her very assertive character, she went so far as to decide at the age of 12 to run away with her bike and “a huge suitcase” in the forest, so as not to have to show her parents… the bad report card she had received at school!
