five years after Miss France, Jade Simon-Abadie laughs (again) at her cult grimace

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This image is the grimace of Jade Simon-Abadie, Miss Centre-Val de Loire 2019, when she learns that she is selected in the top 15. A freeze frame, a post on social networks… and the machine is carried away.

Pour actu.frthe ex-beauty queen returns to this moment and gives her news.

A (too) natural reaction

Let’s go back a little: Saturday December 14, 2019, Dôme de Marseille. It is the election of Miss France 2020, won by Clémence Botino.

But before getting there, there is a show to put on. And at the start, there are 30 regional misses. Including Jade.

The portraits of Miss and the different paintings follow one another. Then comes one of the first key moments of the evening: the top 15.

In fact, I didn’t expect to be called at all. When we arrive on election night, we come back from a month of preparation, where during all this time we are scrutinized, under pressure. It’s a month-long job interview. So that night, I think it won’t do it.

And there, the tenth miss called is Miss Centre-Val de Loire. And she doesn’t have couldn’t hide his surprise. “I made an expression that was not at all that of a miss. I had a natural reaction, except that we ask the misses to be smooth, not too extravagant. And especially at the time,” recalls Jade toactu.fr.

“At that moment, I only thought of two things: to look closely at the camera and that we would have to go backstage smiling. And when I hear my name, I’m surprised, and I know I’m making a face, but for me the camera didn’t film it. »

Except that it is indeed filmed. And on Twitterhis reaction does not really go unnoticed.

Take things with humor

Then come the speeches of the 15 misses still in competition, their parades until another key moment: the top 5. Jade will not be one of the five finalists, but she will only reunite with her loved ones once the evening is over.

After the election, during the afterparty, my brothers told me that I had become a even. And I decided to laugh about it. That was the best response, self-deprecation.

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Jade then decides to post a photo on Twitter. Just to show that she takes things with ease humour. “It made me laugh, even the haters. At no time have I felt unwell because of it. »

If she did not win the crown of Miss France, that evening, Jade became Miss Twitter 2020.

Looking for buzz?

But if for viewers, Miss France is only one evening a year, for the misses, everything does not stop on election night. Even for those who are not elected.

At the time, Jade was a student second year of master communication at the Sorbonne in Paris. And she had to go back to school.

My master’s director asked me if I had done it on purpose, to make that face, to create a buzz.

But he also had to face the gaze of his comrades who were not always kind. “Some said I thought I was too beautiful, others didn’t understand the point of the competition…” recalls the native of Indre-et-Loire. But not enough to destabilize her, the young woman prefers to open the debate.

Life goes on

Finally, Jade came out “grown up” from this experiencethe Miss France experience in general, and the month of preparation in particular.

When she was elected Miss Centre-Val de Loire, she had already been part of the world of competitions for three years. A world that she only finally left last year.

After her master’s degree obtained in 2020 after the competition, Jade became a “freelance event photographer and videographer then coach of young women”, and at the same time, on a voluntary basis, she coaches missesin particular the different Miss Centre-Val de Loire between 2020 and 2023, candidates for the title of Miss France.

But she ended that engagement last year. “I no longer found any meaning in it. » Today, Jade launched its brandJade Caussin, named after her future husband and daughter, which combines “content creation and personal development content for young women and young mothers”.

Because, the former beauty queen became a mother, in 2022, of little Lou, got engaged in 2023 and plans to get married in 2025.

Ce even yes, it’s part of its history. But that’s a detail. “People still talk to me about it today and it comes up every year, even if it fades. »

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