Behind the scenes of Miss France, her little nickname is Hedwig. Like the Harry Potter owl. “Because I have big green eyes!” », Smiles Marion Ratié. This 20-year-old young woman, a student in preparatory class for the accounting and management diploma, will represent the colors of Languedoc-Roussillon, on Saturday, in the election of Miss France 2022. At the Jules-Guesde high school, in Montpellier (Hérault), where she studies, students and teachers are “very motivated to go as far as possible!” They put up posters in high school, it’s really nice! She smiles.
This “go-getter”, passionate about thrilling sports, was spotted two years ago in the salons of the MHB, the Montpellier handball club, while she was working as a hostess. “I waited two years, before responding favorably to the Languedoc-Roussillon committee, because I did not necessarily feel legitimate and mature enough to stand for this election,” says the young woman. She ended up giving in to the sirens of the competition this year. “I decided to go for it after two years of somewhat complicated prep, I wanted to put glitter in my life,” she smiles.
“Little, I paraded in the living room, in front of my parents”
Miss France, for this student from Redessan (Gard), it was a “little girl’s dream”. “When I was little, I paraded in the living room, in front of my parents,” recalls Marion Ratié. It’s a universe that has always attracted me. I really get into the game. I feel at ease on stage, no doubt thanks to my fifteen years of dancing. “After a scientific baccalaureate, the Gardoise however chose a sector far from the rhinestones and glitter of beauty contests: she wishes to become a chartered accountant. “It looks like me,” she says. I’m pretty comfortable with numbers, I like it a lot. “
This is also her strength, she says: she knows how to adapt. “I am a real chameleon. I adapt to each situation, to each person I can meet. Since my election, I have dined with great professors in oncology, like spending a moment with the Confrérie du cassoulet. And I’m just as comfortable with each other as I am. “Marie-Charlotte Méré, corresponding delegate of the Miss France Languedoc-Roussillon committee, has” feasted for three months at her side “since her election on August 1. “She is a young, lively, simple woman who adapts to all situations,” she says. She has plenty of her card to play on Saturday night. “
To keep her spontaneity, Marion Ratié has also refused to learn by heart her little speech, which she will have to unfold when Jean-Pierre Foucault hands her the microphone on Saturday at the Zénith in Caen. “This is a very important passage, this is where the lights are on us. We are not just a physical. “For the young woman, Miss France, it is not that” glitter and brushings, it is much more than that. It is defending ideas. Marion Ratié also wants to use her notoriety to raise awareness about breast cancer. “My mother works in radiotherapy at the University Hospital of Nîmes, she has been treating cancer since I was very young,” she confides. And my grandmother had breast cancer, I went through the disease with her. “