In the portrait of the week Seven to eight, Sylvie Tellier returned to her special relationship with her mother. At the mere mention of it, she gave in to emotion.
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Sylvie Tellier chose to tell her story in her autobiography Crown and prejudice published by Fayard. In this work, she returns in particular to the stormy relations she had with Geneviève de Fontenay from the evening of her election. A subject that she discussed with Audrey Crespo-Mara who dedicated the portrait of the week to her in Seven to eight, this Sunday, May 26. “It’s freezing, even though we don’t know each other. And there’s this chair that separates us, and I want to say to him: ‘What did I do wrong?’“, she confided to Thierry Ardisson’s companion. She then puts forward the reasons which caused this immediate animosity. “I am ‘small’ for a Miss France. […] I’m a little 1.72 meters tall. I’m preparing for the lawyer exam. I come from a fairly modest family. I already have a bit of character.”
Sylvie Tellier, moved to tears, recalling “his mother courage”
But during this exchange, Sylvie Tellier also spoke about her career which did not predestinate her to become Miss France and to succeed Elodie Gossuin. “Miss France, we watched it on TV with my mother every year with my sisters. It was the beautiful dresses, the sequins, this fantastic set, the trips abroad. I had never left France, I think. So yes, it was a bit of a touch of this magic.”, she said. She then returned to her mother who raised her alone with her two sisters and at the simple mention of her mother, she gave in to emotion. “A courageous mother”, she confirmed to Audrey Crespo-Mara, before interrupting herself, too touched to continue. “Mom, she found herself all alone at forty and mom, she’s actually my heroine, because she did everything so that we could continue to move forward”she developed.
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“It’s her victory too,” Sylvie Tellier looks back on her exchange with her mother after her victory in the Miss France competition
As for her father, Sylvie Tellier indicated that he was “absent“. “Absent father, even fleeing”, she added. The latter was not present on the evening of his daughter’s election to the beauty contest and it was with her mother that she shared her victory. “I fall into my mom’s arms and I cry because it’s her victory too actually. I say to mom: ‘Look, look what we both did, look what I did thanks to you’“, she remembered, before wiping away a few tears of emotion again.
