MISS TAHITI. Herenui Tuheiava was crowned Miss Tahiti on June 24. She is the first candidate for the Miss France 2023 election. Who is she?
[Mis à jour le 27 juin 2022 à 10h53] Mrs. Tahiti opened the ball of the regional elections to designate a candidate for Miss France. Herenui Tuheiava is the first candidate for the 2023 beauty pageant. She was elected Miss Tahiti 2022 in Papeete on June 24. Aged 23, the new beauty queen works as a communication officer of 1m77. She has indeed obtained a degree in commerce from the Tahiti business school, as we can learn on Instagram, and is currently studying in the second year of a master’s degree in webmarketing at the CNAM.
Miss Tahiti describes herself as “perfectionist”, “authentic”, “determined” and “passionate” in her portrait. Herenui Tuheiava also reveals to be “positive about the future”, even considering failures “as opportunities to learn from them and evolve”. To see now if this philosophy of life will allow him to succeed Diane Leyre, current Miss France, during the national election which takes place in Châteauroux in December 2022.
All about Miss Tahiti
Miss Tahiti is a beauty contest which aims to elect a candidate for the Miss France contest each year. Several young women from the Tahitian island, in French Polynesia, apply in the hope of becoming the ambassador of the archipelago. Since the creation of the committee in 1960, five Miss Tahiti have been elected Miss France: Edna Tepava in 1974, Thilda Fuller in 1980 (she however renounced her title three days after her coronation), Mareva Georges in 1991, Mareva Galenter in 1999 and Vaimalama Chaves in 2019.
Latest Miss Tahiti
- No election in 2020: There was no candidate from Tahiti in the Miss France 2021 election, which was held in December 2020. The Miss Tahiti committee has decided not to organize its traditional regional election this year, due to the coronavirus. The organizers deemed it wiser to cancel the event so as not to put the candidates and the organizers at risk. In fact, no representative of the Polynesian island had been elected Miss Tahiti in 2020.
- Matahari Bousquet: In 2019, Matahari Bousquet was elected Miss Tahiti in Papeete. Aged 23 at the time of her coronation, the candidate was registered at the time for a degree in English Language, Literature and Foreign Civilization, in order to enter a Master’s degree in order to become a school teacher or enter a fashion school, environment that particularly fascinated her. During the Miss France 2020 election, Matahari Bousquet ranked second runner-up to Clémence Botino.
- Tumateata Bush was elected Miss Tahiti 2021 at the age of 21. The young woman also proudly affirms her “interbreeding”: “I have Asian origins, a Tahitian first name and a French name”, she listed with the Polynésie 1ère channel the day after her coronation. Professionally, Tumateata Buisson works as a communication officer in tourism. She got fourth place at Miss France 2022. Here is the portrait of the representative of Tahiti