Élodie Gossuin is a former beauty pageant winner and municipal politician. Gossuin was raised in Trosly-Breuil in the Oise département, a village about seven miles east of the city of Compiègne. In her teens, she won several local beauty contests. While training to be a nurse, she won the "Miss Picardie" beauty contest in November of 2000 that qualified her to compete for the Miss France 2001 title. Wikipedia
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