MISS TAHITI. First regional miss to have been elected this year, as tradition dictates, Herenui Tuheiava is Miss Tahiti 2022. A professional dancer from the age of 12, the candidate for Miss France is used to the stage!
[Mis à jour le 17 décembre 2022 à 20h50] Traditionally, it is the Miss contest Tahiti which arrives the earliest in the calendar of regional competitions before Miss France. This year was no exception to the rule since Miss Tahiti 2022 was elected on June 24 in Papeete. Herenui Tuheiava, 23, was chosen to represent the region. Holder of a degree in commerce, the young woman is studying webmarketing at the conservatory of arts and crafts. After the victory of Vaimalama Chaves in 2018, she hopes to experience the same fate!
Miss Tahiti 2022 hopes to meet the same fate as Vaimalama Chaves, elected Miss France 2019 and also from Tahiti. If Herenui Tuheiava could follow in the footsteps of her illustrious predecessor, she has a unique, authentic and very sporty personality. Tahitian dance, yoga, hiking… This enthusiast loves to move and does not back down from any challenge since, for the candidate for Miss France 2023, we can learn a lesson from all experiences, whether they end in success or failure. . We will find Miss Tahiti 2022 in Châteauroux on December 17 during the mythical beauty contest.
Herenui Tuheiava was accustomed to the stages from an early age because she joined the Grands Ballets de Tahiti, a troupe of dancers who performed at weddings or in hotels, at the age of 12! She recounts this experience to Figaro TV Mag: “I was 12 then, I was the youngest. It taught me to grow faster but also to have confidence in myself because we sometimes did solos. J I also learned rigor, discipline, punctuality. We rehearsed three evenings a week for two hours so it was quite intense. I had to stop to focus on my studies.”
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
- Tumateata Bush was elected to represent Tahiti in the Miss France 2022 election, in December 2021. The candidate had ranked very well, since she became the third runner-up to Diane Leyre.
- 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