MISS NEW CALEDONIA. Elected Miss New Caledonia 2022, Océane Le Goff experienced bullying as a teenager. Affected by a disease, she wishes to promote the development of remedies against her thanks to her passage in Miss France.
[Mis à jour le 17 décembre 2022 à 20h10] On December 17, the cultural center of Mont-Dore, not far from Nouméa, welcomed eight candidates who dreamed of becoming Miss New Caledonia. Facing the jury and the public gathered on site, it was the young Océane Le Goff, 26 (she is one of the oldest candidates in the competition this year), who won against the other competitors. She therefore takes over from Emmy Chenin, who did not reach the top 15 last year. Océane Le Goff is a very active Miss professionally. Holder of a bachelor’s degree in management and commerce since 2018, she has set up her own childcare service and works in parallel as a customer advisor in the banking sector.
Participating in a beauty contest has not always been obvious to Océane Le Goff, who took a long time to get started, as she told our colleagues from Figaro TV Mag. “I was slow to get started because I had long been the target of teasing because of the color of my hair and it had made me lose confidence in myself during adolescence. Children are cruel to each other as soon as they ‘there is a difference.” Today, the young woman is very proud of the color of her hair and wears it proudly during parades.
Newly elected Miss New Caledonia 2022, Océane Le Goff suffers from polycystic ovary syndrome, a disease that causes hormonal imbalances and can compromise fertility. With TV Mag, the young woman explained to fight against this disease for ten years already. “It concerns one in seven women, 2.5 million French women, it’s not negligible. I was diagnosed at the age of 16, it’s a menstrual disorder, a hormonal imbalance, which can be accompanied many symptoms such as fatigue, pelvic pain, acne, excessive hairiness, hair loss… Symptoms vary from woman to woman.” Very committed to this cause, Océane Le Goff should take advantage of her passage on the stage of Miss France 2023 to raise public awareness about this still little known disorder.
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The Miss New Caledonia competition selects a candidate each year to represent the archipelago in the Miss France election. Only one Miss New Caledonia has obtained the title of Miss France since the creation of the contest: it was Pascale Taurua who had obtained the title in 1978 but had preferred to give it up to return to New Caledonia.
List of recent Miss New Caledonia
- Emmy Chenin: Elected Miss New Caledonia in 2021, Emmy Chenin wore the colors of her region in the national Miss France competition. However, she did not make the Top 15 in the election.
- Louisa Salvan: Elected Miss New Caledonia in 2020, Louisa Salvan represented her region in the Miss France contest at the age of 19. A student at the University of New Caledonia, Salvan was destined to teach as a school teacher. She did not rank in the Miss France 2021 election.
- Anais Toven: she had been elected Miss New Caledonia in 2019. Aged only 18, she was one of the youngest candidates in the competition. At the time of her election, she was following a degree in Sciences and Life of the Earth at the University of Nouville. She did not rank in the Miss France 2020 election.
- Amandine Chabrier: she represented New Caledonia in the Miss France 2019 contest. Aged 19 at the time of the election, she was ready to defend her archipelago but also to bring the fight for breast cancer research to the fore. During Miss France 2018, she did not rank but won the swimsuit prize.