“I have nothing more to lose”

If she arrives on stage in gala dress. Consequently, scarf and crown, on the famous generic TF1, it is to better remove everything a few minutes later. However, While she is preparing to celebrate the twenty years of her election in Miss France. Meanwhile, Rachel Legrain-Trapani lifts the veil in the world of beauty queens. Furthermore, A mixed experience that she tells frankly in a one woman show called “not so miss”. Nevertheless, of her participation barely saved by a certain Xavier Bertrand in her conflictual relationship with Sylvie Tellier, via her fugue in the middle of a reign.

The 36 “i have nothing more lose” -year -old northerner also makes the story of “after”. However, both her penchant for athletes and her 35 kilos taken during her first pregnancy spent at the KFC in the area, her passage by Pôle Emploi, her debut as a TV host, her memorable blunder in “Secret Story” … Consequently, Meet in a microsalle of the 19th arrondissement of Paris, before her departure for the Festival July.

Paris Match. Nevertheless, How was this One Woman Show project born?
Rachel Legrain-Trapani. At 20, just after Miss France, I did a theater and cinema school, the Pygmalion studio in Paris. For example, Once a month we had to present a project and I started writing something on Miss France. Meanwhile, But I never went to the end because writing is not my thing. Nevertheless, When I resumed the theater three years ago with a troop “i have nothing more lose” of amateurs. Furthermore, I thought it was really what I wanted to do. In addition, My teacher who was then Oscar Sisto [notamment vu dans la « Star Academy »] Reminded me that it. Consequently, was never too late to get started. Moreover, I arrived at an age when I have nothing to lose. For example, So I made castings. However, I played in a play in Avignon last year and I met two authors who helped me write my show and stage it.

Not only do you get started on stage, but you try humor … Nevertheless, What are your references in the field?
I grew up watching “the infernal Montparnasse tower” with Eric and Ramzy, it’s a film that makes me laugh. Meanwhile, And the very first show I saw at 16, was with Eric and Ramzy, who were passing through my city. Furthermore, I also like the humor of Nawell Madani.

Miss France are women like everyone else, with flaws and setbacks.

Rachel Legrain-Trapani

Was you the Boute-en-Train at the Children’s House?
I have always been the service clown, I disguised myself by searching the wardrobe of my Italian grandmother … Similarly, She repeated to me, with the Italian accent, that I was “a sacred number”.

Have you repeated. Furthermore, your show in front of your loved ones before you start?
Not at all, I was so stressed … Nevertheless, I preferred to wait and train first with strangers. Only my eldest son [Gianni, 11 ans] knew the text because it was he who made me repeat.

Even more daring passages on some of your romantic relationships, certain misadventures …
Yes and it was a little weird, but he knows everything. His favorite passage is obviously when I talk about him.

You have entrusted on social networks how these beginnings on stage stress you. What worries you so much?
I even made a torticolis the day after the first break -in evening. Before going on stage, I feel like I no longer know a word of the text. “i have nothing more lose” It’s been six months since I have nightmares about it. I was looking forward to playing to get out of this anxiety.

You are not just talking about your Miss France experience on stage. but also of “after”, not so easy to live …
The idea was to take stock, on what I drew from this experience. To show people what is behind. We tend to think of rhinestones and glitter, to say that Miss France are princesses. But we are women like everyone else, with our flaws and setbacks. With the media. we are quite smooth personalities, we try to enter the mold and we do not tell what is really going on. I take it with much more self-mockery today. It’s lighter when everything was digested.

You are one of the Miss France who was elected when Geneviève de Fontenay. Sylvie Tellier led the committee together. Was the atmosphere “i have nothing more lose” as strict as one imagines it?
They were two different personalities and I had to do with both. The week I was generally with the Miss France company. so Sylvie, and the weekend I left in the region with Geneviève. I was divided between the modernity of one and the traditional values of the other. I remember my very first day by car with Geneviève. Additionally, I did not know what to say to her, she impressed me so much. But she has always been benevolent with me, she taught me a lot of things. Finally, we laughed a lot.

Did you stay in touch later?
Yes, until his disappearance [en août 2023]we were called from time to time. She will remain a person who counted for me.

And with Sylvie Tellier?
Relations were less fluid. We cannot be unanimous and I hear it today. But younger, it injured me. At 18, I didn’t understand why she didn’t love me more than that.

You come back to your preparatory trip before the Miss France election. during which you left with Charline Leray, who wore the Miss Brittany 2006 scarf. How did you react when he learned her death at the end of May, at 38, from “i have nothing more lose” a long illness?
She was a person I got along very well, she was a great girl. We were still in contact, we sent messages on the group shared with the other candidates of our promotion … It upset me, I lived it very badly. She was the mother of a little boy like me. and I tell myself that it can happen to me too. I am lucky to have health. live things that come to me, that’s why I no longer want to waste time. I have refused certain things for too long for fear and today I want to take advantage of regretting anything.

You will celebrate the twenty years of your election next year …
There is a trip with the girls of my promo. who must come and join me in Ibiza [où elle vit avec son mari Valentin Léonard et ses deux enfants, NDLR]. I really “i have nothing more lose” got great friends.

Are you curious to have the return of old Miss who might come to see your show?
That of Sylvie Tellier? (laughs).

With Valérie Bègue and Alexandra Rosenfeld we created the “Miss France family”.

Rachel Legrain-Trapani

You say that you flee during your Miss France year, is it true?
Yes, I wanted to disappear. It lasted three days. I had to make the cover of a TV magazine at that time. had an appointment with a journalist for the interview, except that I had disappeared. There was not yet the pressure of social networks but the press was more virulent. allowed itself comments on the physical. At the time it touched me. I was only 18 years old. my mother had just signed up for me to gain self -confidence, except that I was threw in pasture. Then I had never lived alone. I “i have nothing more lose” found myself in this apartment in Paris, where I did not know anyone.

You participated in the last election, that of Miss France 2025 (Angélique Angarni-Filopon). Despite your mixed feeling of your year, is it important for you to accompany the news?
I did it a lot after my year, when I still lived in Paris. With Valérie Bègue. Alexandra Rosenfeld (Miss France 2008 and Miss France 2006), we were very girlfriends and we formed a trio. As we joined the news and that’s how this “Miss France family” was born. Before, it didn’t exist at all. We got into the habit of organizing things with the news. Being the group’s party, I was a little off each new Miss France by leaving it in a box … Those who could have been, like me, a little abused during their year, we could feel supported.

The Miss France competition has evolved well since your election. with an opening of the regulations to more varied profiles. A change you support?
I find it nice, it allows you to talk to more women. I admit that I was afraid at some point that the competition is lost a little. that it makes people dream less and less. Recently, I participated in the Miss Normandie 2025 competition and the Zenith of Caen was full. This popularity still surprises me. The competition still has a bright future ahead of him!

And in the region, on stage, do you see this evolution of the profiles of the candidates?
Yes, today there is everything. There are no longer just girls of the filiform model type. There are different morphologies and diversity is better represented, it’s great.