Alexia Laroche-Joubert, media guest at the Summer Club on Europe 1 on Thursday, August 4, has revisited the new rules of the Miss France competition, which she currently runs. Now the Miss can be a mother. An opportunity for the producer to talk about her experience as a "single mother", "widow at 30".
Miss France will get a makeover for the 2023 Beauty Queen election. With the arrival of Alexia Laroche-Joubert, some things have changed and some selection criteria have changed. Thus, there is no longer an age limit and now women with children have the opportunity to participate. There is no longer any need to be officially "single". " 'Single', I found it absurd, a bit ridiculous. And it’s true that I allowed the mothers. This is something that is contested by Miss France who say that it is extremely complicated, and I am aware of that...", revealed the producer on Europe 1 in the Summer Club she was invited to this Thursday, August 4.
To defend her choice with the Miss, Alexia Laroche-Joubert took as an example her personal case. In July 2003, the 30-year-old, known as the director of the Star Academy, lost her first husband, Yan-Philippe Blanc, to a motorcycle accident. Their daughter, Solweig, was only one year old."I was a widow when I was 30, and I raised my second daughter almost alone, so I consider that I have made a career while being a single mother. "You have to know how to organize yourself very well," the producer told Thomas Isle. "On the other hand, every woman who presents herself with a child is told: 'It is not up to us to organize your life, so you will have to organize your life,' she immediately announced.
"So I didn't see myself forbidding competition for moms."
Alexia Laroche-Joubert had already displayed this point of view in the columns of Gala last June. I myself started a difficult career with two children who I raise alone. The first because the father died, the second because the father (Guillaume Multrier, ed.) does not live in Paris," she explained. When the eldest was a baby, I produced a show in Nice and her father kept her. So I did not see myself forbidding the competition to mothers, but there is one condition: the national rules stipulate that we would not adapt our schedule to theirs,' she concluded.