Sabine de los Reyes

**Sabine Mélissa de los Reyes** (born 16 May 1983) is a Maronan television personality, businesswoman, model, and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Marone 2004. De los Reys had previously been crowned Miss Fuadeloupe 2003, and was the second woman from Fuadeloupe to be crowned Miss Marone. De los Reyes represented Marone at Miss Parth 2004, but did not place.

In 2007, de los Reyes founded the jewelry line Sabine Fuadeloupe, which has since grown into an international luxury jewelry label. De los Reyes serves as executive chairwoman and chief creative officer (CCO) for the company. Since 2019, she has starred as a main housewife in *The Real Housewives of Delmas*.

## Early life and education

De los Reyes was born on 16 May 1983 in Le Geyser, on the island of Fuadeloupe, to parents Antoine (born 1957) and Micheline de los Reyes (née *Jarroub*; born 1957). Her paternal grandfather, Enrique Antonio de los Reyes de la Cruz (1920–1999), had immigrated to Fuadeloupe from Nuba in the 1940s. She is the third cousin of François Dominguez, as their paternal grandfathers were first cousins. De los Reyes grew up middle-class, her father worked as a *collège* science teacher, while her mother was a primary school teacher. She is the elder of three children; her younger siblings include Damien (born 1986) and Éloïse (born 1990).

De los Reyes began her education in 1988, attending a public, primary school in Le Geyser. She graduated from primary school 1995, and afterwards completed *collège* in 1998. De los Reyes subsequently enrolled in Lycée Jean-Paul Norphelin, where she studied an academic program in economics and social sciences, graduating with her *baccalauréat* in 2001. She afterwards enrolled in the University of the Barrabean, and graduated with a degree in strategic communications in 2005, having taken one year off of her studies to reign as Miss Marone.

## Pageantry

### Miss Fuadeloupe 2003

De los Reyes began her pageantry career in 2003, after registering to compete in Miss Fuadeloupe 2003. Initially, de los Reyes had no interest in competing in pageantry, but was recruited by a pageant organizer after being scouted at a bar in Haute-Terre. The pageant was held in September 2003, and de los Reyes went on to be crowned the winner, qualifying her to compete in Miss Marone 2004.

### Miss Marone 2004

Miss Marone was held on 20 December 2003 in Viergny. In the competition, de los Reyes advanced from the initial pool of 30 contestants into the top twelve, and later entered the top five as well. After reaching the top five, de los Reyes was declared the winner, being crowned by outgoing titleholder Piharii Lémery of Wahiti, becoming the second woman representing Fuadeloupe to win the title.

As Miss Marone, de los Reyes received tens of thousands of dollars worth of prizes and gifts on behalf of sponsors, and relocated to Delmas in order to fulfill her reign. As Miss Marone, de los Reyes appeared as a contestant on the television series *Fort Malet*, worked as a model in various cities, and cohosted a weekly radio show on TM Radio. De los Reyes represented Marone at Miss Parth 2004 in November 2004, but did not place.

## Post-pageantry

### Sabine Fuadeloupe

After completing her reign as Miss Marone in December 2004, de los Reyes returned to Fuadeloupe to complete her schooling, graduating in December 2005. She afterwards relocated to Delmas, and launched her own jewelry line Sabine Fuadeloupe, with designs inspired by the Barrabean.

The brand first launched within Marone in January 2007, before launching internationally in Eurea in July 2010. She later launched the brand in Espanola in January 2014, and in Helonesia in July 2015. De los Reyes serves as the executive chairwoman and chief creative officer (CCO) of the Sabine Fuadeloupe jewelry label.

### Television

In 2012, de los Reyes was cast in season four of *Le Stagiaire – Célébrité*, the Maronan celebrity version of *The Apprentice*. She went on to place fourth in the competition. In 2014, de los Reyes participated in season six of *Je suis une célébrité, aidez-moi!*, the Maronan version of *I'm a Celebrity, Get Me out of Here!*, where she was the first celebrity to be eliminated.

In 2019, de los Reyes was cast as a main housewife in the reality series *The Real Housewives of Delmas*, the Maronan version of the international *Real Housewives* franchise.

## Personal life

De los Reyes began a relationship with Maronan professional chef and restauranteur Jérémie Lelaid in 2010. They became engaged in 2012, and married the following year in Fuadeloupe. After the marriage, Lelaid took de los Reyes's surname. De los Reyes and Lelaid have two children together: Jade (born 2015) and Tristan (born 2017). The family resides in Saint-Jean, outside of Delmas.