Sacré bleu! The brand new Miss France has shaken her home nation by daring to sport short hair. But she's not the first beauty pageant contestant to cause a fuss over something this outrageous.
Eve Gilles has sparked controversy after daring to enter — and win — the Miss France contest while sporting a pixie haircut.
The 20-year-old is the first winner to have short hair in the pageant's 104-year history and has reportedly hailed her achievement as a win for "diversity".
"We're used to seeing beautiful Misses with long hair but I chose an androgynous look with short hair," she is quoted as saying in French newspaper Le Monde.
While some are supportive of this brave stance, others have labelled Gilles' win as "woke".
She joins a long line of beauty pageant contestants to have so egregiously thumbed their nose at contest protocol. Here are a few of the others that erred before her.
Vanessa Williams and the nude photos
Actor and singer Vanessa Williams is probably the most famous beauty pageant winner to find herself in hot water over contest rules after being stripped of her Miss America title in 1983.
What did she do to deserve this, you might ask?
She once posed for photos that she was assured would just be unidentifiable silhouettes, but they turned out to be very identifiable nude photos that Penthouse magazine went on to release without her permission and despite her objections.
The nerve of the woman!
Amanda Longacre: Long in the tooth at 25
Longacre enjoyed her reign as Miss Delaware 2014 for precisely two weeks before officials ruled she was too old to compete in the Miss America pageant that year.
The age cut-off was reportedly 24 and she was turning 25 soon after the pageant.
Twenty-five years old? Disgusting!
Pageant contestants have often been caught out by age limits, but there's hope for old crones everywhere with Miss Universe organisers recently declaring all women over the age of 18 will be allowed to compete in their contests.
Alicia Machado and the weight gain
Alicia Machado was crowned Miss Universe in 1996 but pageant organisers reportedly threatened to replace her after she gained weight.
The pageant owner at the time, one Donald Trump, called her "an eating machine" on Howard Stern's radio show and invited the media to watch her exercise.
Machado later told the New York Times she wanted to cry when reporters turned up with cameras to film her exercising.
"I said, 'I don't want to do this, Mr Trump.' He said, 'I don't care.'"
Brenda Robles and the baby on board
Miss Universe contestants were famously not allowed to be either married or have children for years.
Brenda Robles found this out the hard way in 1994 when she was stripped of her Miss Puerto Rico title after having the audacity to be pregnant while competing in the pageant.
But times, they are a-changing on that front, too. Miss Colombia Camila Avella made history last month by becoming the first Miss Universe contestant to have a husband and a child.
And that is what we call progress!
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