She was only 23 years old in 2018 and came from Boulogne-sur-Mer when she won the crown and sash of Miss France. “Winning Miss France was the dream of my life. I know that in that moment, my life will change. And finally, I got a wave of hatred,” confided Maëva Coucke in the show “Dans les yeux d’Olivier” broadcast Wednesday evening on France 2.
And this from the first hours of his reign. Barely sacred, “I pick up my phone in the middle of the night, I think about 5 a.m., when finally, I am staying at the hotel, and I see a lot of reviews,” she explains. “A lot of criticism linked to my body shape, especially my weight. And there, I have “broomstick”, “anorexic”, “breadboard”…”
Expressions that take her directly back to her college years, “except that there, it’s a lot of French people who come and criticize me, and I had almost never even noticed that the people were so mean and so virulent.”
An Internet user even goes so far as to open an online kitty to pay for McDonald’s. “It’s as hurtful to tell someone ‘you’re anorexic’ as it is to tell someone ‘you’re obese.’ It’s not happening, it’s inappropriate,” says the ex-Miss. Some go even further. “I have already received photos of men’s private parts and even a video where a man is masturbating,” she confides. “We have the impression of being objects” and “it’s more and more violent,” she regrets.
