“Cover this breast that I cannot see”wrote Molière in Tartuffe. Here is a sentence that would please the now chaste ears of Maeva Ghennam.
Since last December, between two product placements, the starlet of Marseille feeds his 3.2 million followers daily with surahs and updates on his path to Allah.
The former bimbo has swapped her prosthetic buttocks for a Koran and her dizzying necklines for an abaya. No more provocation, no more microdresses, today Maeva wears modest clothes and advocates a life more in tune with traditional values.
Reality TV contestants turn to religion
Like her, many former reality TV candidates have turned to religion. Lately, Marine El Himer shared the video of his conversion to Islam with his community.
Having become the face of a brand of gandouras, Océane’s twin has been posting regularly since photos of her veiled at the mosque.
In search of meaning after years of excess and exposure, would the candidates see in the exacerbated practice of religion a possibility of gaining respectability?
“Before, you were a young girl who made mistakes. Today, thank God, you wanted to repent and you became a woman”explains Walid Draou, the man who accompanies Maéva on her pilgrimage to Mecca.
Inhale a little more considerationfor these candidates often mocked because of their hyper sexualized physique and their romantic adventures, this is a promise that can make you dream.
Religion, a quest for respectability
Therefore Haneiaformer recruit of Marseille and Angelswidely criticized for having seduced Kevin Guedj while he was in a relationship with Carla Moreau, chose to devote his life to the Mormons.
In the United States where she now lives, not a day goes by without her evoking the Holy Scriptures, filming herself going door to door with a proselytizing aim or going to large gatherings in honor of of Jesus. Became tradwife (contraction of traditional wife), she no longer publishes any photos of herself in a bikini, but rather cooking recipes to feed her family well, advice on the best way to cook ribs, cereal crash tests… all of it in dresses cut below the knee and pulled up to the neck. Enough to inspire senders of dick pics to practice their art.
Because this is perhaps also what pushes reality TV stars to take refuge in religion. The impression that some have that by dint of sharing their privacy through broadcasts, these young women have fallen into the public domain, that they no longer deserve any respect.
In September 2022, in the post where she announced her conversion, Haneia explained that she had given up all artifice, hair coloring, false nails, makeup. and she declared to her subscribers:
But I still miss being a bitch sometimes
Haneia to her subscribers
Is this how she considered herself when she worked on W9 and NRJ12? Either bitch or submissive… Beyond religious practice, this is the Manichean dilemma in which reality TV candidates seem forever locked.
Men also turn to God
Dylan Thiry, Jordan des Ch’tis, Julien Guirado… Religiosity also affects men.
On their Instagram accounts, some of them talk about their conversion or simply reveal their religious practice in broad daylight.
Moreover, for Easter, Marine El Himer’s ex did not hesitate to post a photo of himself in front of a cross. Sign of redemption or simple trend? The Lord’s mysterious ways.
This article was written by Sarah Lévy-Laithier
