The appointment has been made and she will be there. Launched into an unusual rhythm of life, Lætitia Bléger will stop off at the Alsace Grand-Est by UTMB trail. The Miss France 2004 will start the 50 km this Friday in Barr (Bas-Rhin). Almost on his land since the family winery is about thirty kilometers away, precisely in Saint-Hippolyte (Haut-Rhin).
Her year with the crown completed, the ex-beauty queen could have settled there and then helped her brother to take over the business. A ready-made sequel… But it did not correspond to his aspirations. “I only help when needed, often in the cellar and for example during the harvest,” she explains to 20 minutes. But that wasn’t my job, I was originally a flight attendant. »
An activity that she practiced for a long time “in a box that managed private jets”, until stopping “a year and a half ago”. Before that, there were also other adventures. Media, in particular with participation in the reality TV show First Company, Top chef or more times to Fort Boyard. For Miss France too, even if her year of reign had been marred by controversy after the publication of naked photos in two magazines.
“I was less interested in it in recent years but I have been back since Cindy (Fabre) took over last summer. I even participated in the integration of Indira (Ampiot, Miss France 2023) in skiing and we were followed by 50′ inside cameras. It was cool!, Details the forties (42 years old), without wanting to expand too much on the subject. Miss France was a great springboard but it’s not me at all. I’ve worn more sneakers than stilettos in my life! »
His race this Ascension weekend confirms this. But not only. Laetitia Bléger has already participated in trails of the same type, “like that of the Passerelles du Monteynar and twice the Mont Blanc marathon”. “My longest distance must be 65 km, always on the feel. I listen to my body and I don’t aim for a specific time. A reflex that she also gets from her summit ascents. “Kilimanjaro, Aconcagua and I was in Nepal in October for a 7,000 meters but we had to go down, she lists. I had suffered quite a bit from the cold. »
Surprising for a big fan of long frozen baths, one of the components of the “Wim Hof method”, named after the Dutchman who launched his well-being method. “It’s a subject that fascinates me, I could talk about it for hours. That’s why I’m preparing right now to become an instructor. I want to transmit. »
At the heart of this already busy program, the Alsatian regularly goes to Switzerland, where her companion has lived for four years, the former high-level triathlete Mike Aigroz. “He is a coach and we often go to the mountains, I like to be in the middle of nature”, she explains again, aware that ” [sa] life would not suit everyone”. “But I don’t like routine. I do too many things in my life! I am never bored and will never be bored. »
Already not this Friday, that’s for sure. “Perhaps I will finish in 77 hours (the 50 km with 1,990 meters of elevation gain), I will be neither in the first nor in the last, she laughs. My family should come see me at the finish, it must be the first time! “It must be said that it is not easy to follow…