Miss France 2025: who is Julie Dupont, Miss Île-de-France?

And relentlessly. This mixed race of Franco-Cameroonian origin, who lives in Puteaux (Hauts-de-Seine), had already participated in the election of her department and her region in 2022, finishing first runner-up for both Miss Hauts-de -Seine then Miss Île-de-France. A trial run. “I hadn’t really prepared myself. This time I played the game very seriously. » After seven years of study, including two in Washington where her parents lived, to become a journalist, she had worked tirelessly and was looking for an oasis before plunging into working life: “I didn’t have a sabbatical year like my friends. I wanted to experience this Miss year. Little Julie, full of complexes, is very happy with the adventure and with what she has become,” smiles the laughing young woman of 26 years old… and 1.76 m tall.

“My mother told me not to give up”

However, this second campaign in 2024 got off to a bad start. Miss, it’s sport, competition. The reporter with the afro cut was once again beaten by a hair in the Miss Hauts-de-Seine election on June 2: “I was thinking of tearing everything up and becoming first runner-up again. Honestly I wanted to stop. My mother told me not to give up. She reminded me that you could present yourself directly to Miss Île-de-France through a general casting. I did it and won a crown, finally, after my fourth election! » She laughs. It was in October. Since then, everything has accelerated.

The admirer of Élise Lucet, who loved her internship at 12:45 on M 6 where she carried out real investigations, and who plans to tackle long formats in her profession, has savored each sequence of this great Miss report, since Ivory Coast and the integration journey to Futuroscope: “I’m so into it that I don’t even follow the news much anymore. Last night (this Thursday) I was thinking of watching Emmanuel Macron’s speech but we had a charity gala. I watched it afterwards, on replay. » Good reflex, all the same. She lives in a bubble of gentleness and seriousness: “We’re getting into the hard stuff. In the evening after rehearsals I redo the poses in front of my mirror. I was told, It’s going to be complicated, preparationbut I love it. I miss my loved ones… but not that much.” Ah good ? “Mentally I am ready. My parents now live in Texas, for work. So I’m used to doing without family. »

Back in France after two years in the United States

It was she who wanted to return to France, after two years in Washington with them: “I was homesick.” A real Miss, who must be patriotic. It was while watching TV presenters, former beauty queens, that Julie said to herself that as a sabbatical year, it could be a real life and career booster. Except now, she loves the “glam” from one dress to the next so much that she doesn’t think much about the job anymore, just now Miss.

Let’s not talk too much about her spectacular afro: “It’s been a while since I went back to my natural hair. Women tell me: really, it’s possible, how did you manage to keep this cut authentic? I care about it but I also don’t want my identity to be reduced to that.” The last time we talked a lot about a Miss’s hair was Eve Gilles last year. Perhaps a good omen.