The young woman who will represent Pays de la Loire in the next Miss France election is now known. The one who was crowned this Saturday, September 28, 2024 is called Mélissa Atta Bessiom.
Less than three months before the Miss France 2025 election, the regional elections are in full swing. In this last weekend of September alone, there were four organized, including that of Miss Pays de la Loire. The ceremony, which took place this Saturday, September 28, 2024 in Château-Gontier, in Mayenne, saw sixteen young women compete, who dreamed of succeeding the title holder, Clémence Ménard. At the end of the evening, it is a certain Mélissa Atta Bessiom who was finally crowned Miss Pays de la Loire 2024.
The new Miss Pays de la Loire, Mélissa Atta Bessiom, is an AI project manager at Louis Vuitton
Aged 25 and living in Angers, Mélissa Atta Bessiom is already in working life. Born in London to a French mother and a Cameroonian father, she works in artificial intelligence for a luxury house. And not just any one: she has been an AI project manager at Louis Vuitton for almost two years, as she told West France. “I’m in shock, I have to notify my work because I told them until Monday”she laughed to the regional daily after learning of her victory. Passionate about fashion, the new Miss Pays de la Loire also loves sport and travel. But she is also a committed woman. The one who was very self-conscious in her youth due to her large size advocates self-acceptance.
Mélissa Atta Bessiom once self-conscious about her size: “I’m 1.80, I wear size 43”
“I’m 1.80, I wear size 43. When I was in college, I wore men’s shoes, people made fun of me,” Mélissa Atta Bessiom told West France. “As Miss Pays de la Loire, I want to defend women and push them to have confidence in themselves. This is what I already do on my social networks where I try to support tall women to that they accept each other”, declared the one who, little by little, ended up gaining self-confidence and accepting her size, to the point of realizing that it was “an asset”. And to participate in beauty contests.
