Did you know that Miss Weather and wife of Eric Antoine, Gennifer Demey, was a runner-up to Miss France 2016? The 33-year-old young woman spoke about the conditions of preparation for the competition, which were sometimes difficult to live with…
Before becoming an osteopath and weather presenter on W9, Gennifer Demey, who has been the wife of Eric Antoine since last August, participated in the major Miss France competition. And she even finished 5th runner-up to Miss France 2016, Iris Mittenaere! The one who competed with the Miss Aquitaine sash recently remembered the difficult conditions of preparing for the competition…
Gennifer Demey at Miss France: Eric Antoine’s wife talks about the weigh-ins behind the scenes
Gennifer Demey experienced the behind the scenes of the Miss France competition and, according to his confidences, it was far from idyllic. Candidates from the previous class of 2015 had faced numerous criticisms about their bodies and cyberharassment. “They no longer had the same body at the time of their election in the region and at the time of going onto the stage of the Miss France election“, told Miss Weather on the microphone of RTL, specifying that at the time, “there had not yet been this emergence of body positivity“.
So, the following year, when Gennifer Demey was a candidate, the regional Misses were urged by the Miss France company to pay more attention to their weight in order to “protect against this type of reaction“.”They told us: ‘You must maintain the same weight as when you were elected. For this, you will have to pay close attention to your diet. she said on Faustine Bollaert’s radio show. “We were weighed every 2-3 days I think“, she even added.
Eve Gilles responds to Gennifer Demey: “In the same way as…”
These conditions of preparation for Miss France were extremely trying and exerted real pressure on the candidates. “I saw friends suffer, lose a lot of weight. And others who, on the contrary with stress, gained a lot of weight even though they ate a salad leaf“, she explained.
However, Eric Antoine’s wife has good memories behind the scenes of Miss France, in particular thanks to the goodwill that reigned within her promotion: “I’m lucky to have had a great promo where we had real solidarity against the Society of Misses“. And if Gennifer Demey had the experience of weighing, Eve Gilles, Miss France 2024, confirmed that the methods had (fortunately) evolved since then!
“There is no more weighing at all, and if they ask to keep the same body during Miss France month, it is only because tailor-made costumes are being prepared. In the same way that a bride keeps the same body once she has found HER dress and the alterations are done“, commented the beauty queen on Instagram, in reaction to Gennifer Demey’s comments.
