After Eve Gilles, another Miss France 2025 candidate is making headlines for her hair (and that's nice)

In 2023, before being elected Miss France 2024, Eve Gilles caused a lot of ink to flow with her original hairstyle. She is in fact one of the rare Misses to have competed with short hair, and as a bonus to have won.

Usually, the candidates in the running have one thing in common: that of having long or mid-length hair, generally straightened or wavy, including for candidates who have frizzy hair. But this year, one of the Misses intends to change things.

Julie Dupont, proud of her afro cut

Questioned by our colleagues from Tele-Leisure, Julie Dupont was elected Miss Île-de-France 2024and intends to do everything to represent his region on the occasion of the election of Miss France. The young woman was very happy to go to the Ivory Coast, her mother being of African origin: “I have already been to Cameroon, which is my mother's country of origin, but never to the Ivory Coast. Ivory.”

Among the candidates, Julie Dupont stands out thanks to her afro cut: “Everyone talks to me about it but it's a symbol in spite of myself. I noticed that there were a lot of mixed-race or black boys and girls who didn't take responsibility for their hair. This was still the case for me a few years ago. If I didn't have braids or straightened hair, I didn't leave the house one day, I straightened it so much that I didn't. I burned them. I cut my hair short and I was afraid of how others would look at me. I've only been going natural for four years,” she explains.

Also, she is happy to appear on stage with her afro cut: “It's important for me to show this afro cut because when I was self-conscious, it was by seeing other women that it gave me want to go natural All girls have their hair natural, so why not me? Mentalities have changed, now people love it.”

A Miss France candidate who suffered racist discrimination

However, Julie Dupont has not always had an easy life because of her hair. The Miss France candidate has indeed suffered racist discrimination in the past. “I was once refused a job interview because of my hair. In my student jobs, when I was a hostess, I was asked to straighten my hair… I was even touched by my hair without asking me .”

Also, the one who dreams of succeeding Eve Gilles says: “I don't want everything to revolve around my afro. I have more to offer.”