Like many Miss France before her, Angélique Angarni-Filopon was not spared from the hateful comments towards her on social networks. The young woman was particularly criticized for her age, having become at 34 the oldest Miss in the history of the national beauty contest. But faced with this relentlessness, against which she says she is “armoured”, the beauty queen thinks above all of her family.
And to prevent online harassment from also affecting her loved ones, Angélique Angarni-Filopon found herself obliged to consult malicious messages to “block” them. “I no longer want these people to have access to my direct account. And unfortunately, what these people don’t realize is that behind me, I have a family,” she explained on Saturday January 4 on the set of What an era!
“He sees all that”
The young flight attendant, who represented Martinique during the election last December, particularly sought to protect her young nephews. “I have nephews who come across the comments and I shield myself […] my heart is armored, she emphasized. But my nephews may not necessarily be. The oldest is 13 and that's very young! It’s his 3rd year, middle school period. Yesterday I spoke to him on the phone, it was the patent period, etc. But he sees all that…”
Angélique Angarni-Filopon then expressed her dismay at the reactions she sees on social networks. “I find it sad to take so much comfort (and time) in telling someone that you don’t love them,” she noted. I will never say to someone in the street: “I don't like your hat”, because I don't care, it's not my hat…”
A usual relentlessness
However, she is not the only one to speak out shortly after her election about online harassment. A year earlier, Ève Gilles already denounced the negative comments about her short hair and her skinny silhouette. “I have short hair, like many French women. It’s not something extraordinary that will make me just the Miss with Short Hair,” she told Parisian.
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“Following the distribution of the swimsuit photos, I received a wave of body shaming. There were a lot of comments saying that I don't have shapes, that I'm thin. […] But I don’t choose my body.” The former Miss France, for her part, chose to ignore online comments to protect herself from hatred.
