This funny nickname that Angélique Angarni-Filopon had at school

Elected Miss France 2025 at the age of 34 last Saturday December 14, Angélique Angarni-Filopon suffered from her physique at the start of her adolescence, which caused her to inherit a negative nickname.

Since her coronation last Saturday in front of more than 6 million viewers live on TF1, Angélique Angarni-Filopon has repeated it in several interviews: becoming Miss France 2025 was her childhood dream. A dream that the one who had been elected a few months earlier Miss Martinique 2024 realized at the age of 34, which makes her the oldest beauty queen in the history of the competition. Born on October 9, 1990 in the North Caribbean in Martinique, she nevertheless grew up in mainland France, more precisely in Vauréal, in Val d’Oise. “It was a very calm childhood. I lived in a small suburban neighborhood, my neighbors were all girls. I had my little group of best friends“, she smiles. Among them, a certain Mélissa, with whom she has been friends for 32 years!

Angélique Angarni-Filopon (Miss France 2025): this surprising nickname that we gave her at school

If she remembers then Tele-Leisure from a happy childhood, where she lacked for nothing, raised with her two brothers and her sister, the young woman nevertheless suffered from her physique at the very beginning of her adolescence. “For the record, I was very small until CM2, I had front teeth and they called me ‘little pony‘”, she remembers. Everything changed for Angélique Angarni-Filopon when she entered 6th grade. “I gained 30 cm in one year and I went from 1.47 m to 1.77 m, which earned me a bit of mockerya little difficulty“.

Angélique Angarni-Filopon (Miss France 2025) talks about her adolescence: “I didn’t necessarily have a very positive image of myself”

However, Miss France 2025 assures that she has never been the victim of school harassment. “I won’t go that far, but it’s true that I didn’t necessarily have a very positive image of myself. But it’s normal, because it goes with age and because it goes with the self-confidence that we don’t necessarily have when we’re very young. We struggle a lot at those ages, but I was mentally strong enough“, describes Angélique Angarni-Filopon in hindsight.