A month ago, to the day, Sonia Rolland blew her 42nd birthday. And in December 2022, was celebrating the 23rd anniversary of her triumph at Miss France. A coronation that changed everything in the life of one of the first beauty queens with African origins.
Her father is French, a native of Béarn and her mother is from Rwanda, a country that the successor of Mareva Galenter left (to escape the genocide of the Tutsi, editor’s note) ten years before causing a sensation at the Hôtel de Ville in Paris. It is Burgundy that will welcome her and her family. In this region, she lived modestly until everything changed on December 11, 1999.
“From there, I understood that I could no longer plant myself”, she remembered in the columns of World. “I was proud to represent France, which I adore, but I was also proud to represent Africa. By becoming Miss France, I lived a social and modern fairy tale. What was difficult was that I also had to represent the working class where I come from. Becoming Miss France is not winning the lottery. You get a status, a public life, money, but for those around you, nothing changes. I had to deal with that guilt.”
The one who is an actress and also a director added with great sincerity: “As a mestizo, you always live with your ass between two chairs”.
Currently, the forty-something is working on a film, entitled An unexpected fate. A feature film inspired by his life.“The life of Nadia, a basketball player who will become Miss France a little by chance, is indeed inspired by mine”, she explained. “But I mixed in lots of other stories. It’s realistic fiction, a film that tells how a girl’s destiny can change in a second”.
To find out, you’ll have to wait…
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