Engine, accent! The last time this warm rock in the voice appeared at the head of Miss France, it was Alexandra Rosenfeld, beauty queen 2006. The last victory of Languedoc. Jade Benazech, 19, already has her own record: it is the very first time that a Miss Aude has won the regional election. The young woman, who intends to become a nurse for “elders”, elderly people whether they are “bad or not, we have to take care of them”, is already very celebrated and busy in her region: “J I was elected on August 10. You have to learn to do everything very quickly, give interviews, increase the number of official shootings, photos, all this public activity is a very big job.”
This year, very sporty misses, and more on the competition side than leisure. “I signed for Toulouse in Nationale 2,” says very naturally this high-level handball player who has already known several clubs. His father, Frédéric Benazech, was a professional rugby player in Narbonne, Perpignan, Agen, Grenoble, Montpellier. A great apostle of French flair. Miss Languedoc also likes to drill between the lines and find the gaps.
On the first day of the thirty candidates' integration trip to Ivory Coast, the 1.82m tall winner initially seemed intimidated, almost frightened. And then, in a popular African market in Abidjan, she is the only one to adapt perfectly, to kneel with a trader to really play a wooden game of which only both of them know the rules. In the evening, at the hotel, she explains to us why she felt so comfortable: “It's a childhood memory, this game. My mother ran a humanitarian association in Burkina Faso. Africa is good times for me.”
That same evening, in a small living room with two other Misses, we talked about social networks to master in order to apply. Jade Benazech admits with disappointment her low number of subscribers. Miss Guadeloupe reassures her: “Last year, Eve Gilles was one of those who had the least, you see…”
The Narbonnaise who passed through Montpellier and Toulouse has seen others, she who was harassed for a long time, at school, for her height and her lips, we will even hear her report with self-deprecation a nasty mockery of kids. Beauty is also the tenacity to assert it. The handball player presented herself twice to Miss Aude to finally win. Fall, get up. Jade Benazech prefers the mountains to the sea. Ready to climb Miss France's Everest.
