Above, Ken and Lisa my pretty niece. I love my new Jimmy Choo purse, also thank you for the precious gift on my birthday! I am crazy for this party bag…. My family… Debbie my sister-in-law, Emiko my mother-in-law, Silvia and her daughter Susan married to my neveu and my adorable Mom Photos by Jon Berger

Yuka,

Thank you so much! I had a fun birthday with most of my friends also with my parents. So lucky!
Next year I would love to have a party with all of those who write on my blog. I will try to organize it.

Much love, Ines

Yukie darling,

I am happy if I could help you…. Give a big kiss to your baby girl for me. Tell her I am her Godmother! I do not know the word in Japanese to say that….
This is a good idea to write a book about motherhood, because many moms in Japan are struggling with being a good mom, I can tell.

I will think about how to write it so that it can benefit many moms.

Keep in touch sweetie, I care about you, really.

Love, Ines

Leesora,

Of course it is not true! Someone with bad intentions started the rumors, but they were denied by the press already.

Hiroko is an angel and would NEVER do something like it.
My advise, never pose naked, be careful of people with bad intentions, because this world with the internet trend can be quite dangerous.

Much love, Ines

Merci Nagisa!
Thank you so much for helping at the auditions!

See you in Tokyo on december 5th for the selection of the 15 finalists???

Love, Ines

Jude my dear,

Good questions…. The final will be on March 9th in Tokyo.
We have now 850 something semi-finalists already.
MUJ team went to 5 different cities around Japan this year (last year was only 2 cities: Tokyo and Osaka).
This year the caravan auditions were held in Hokkaido, Osaka, Kobe, Nagoya, Tokushima and Tokyo!!!!

On December 5th in Tokyo at the prestigious Omotesando Hills located on the Japanese Champs Elysees, we will have a full day event with the press and public where I will be choosing the 15 finalists among the 850 + semi-finalists that were chosen at the caravan. Also it will be a long and mental exhausting event for me, because each girl will have an interview with me and the pre-judges!!! Followed by a catwalk competition.

Videos will be posted on the http://WWW.MUJTV.COM website for those who will miss it because away from Tokyo of from Japan.

The theme this year is Studio 54 (Disco)
Much love, Ines

Merci Kenda!

Come visit us in Japan! Maybe for the Miss Universe Japan Pageant this year, on March 9th?????

Love, Ines

Kodinza,

Yes, I knew people would love to see pictures of Tokyo. Some have been there and some would love to go there!

You are right, Hiroko is my baby girl!

Love, ines

Merci Karin and Megumi!

Gem,

Thank you for your nice comments. Yes, my family is very united. My parents are always kissy-kissy together and holding hands.
I grew up with this example of love in a couple. My friends always tell me how lucky I am to have such a loving family and I appreciate it each day.

Yes, my Ben is hot!! LOL
Ben is working in Tokyo as a graphic designer. He tried modeling a few years ago because I pushed it to do so, but he hated it because he is a simple guy who loves computers, composing sound tracks and doing extreme sports. He hates posing and pretending…. Way too macho… so funny. I always tell him, that I wish he would be gay so that I could go shopping with him, and he would dress more trendily!

Love & kiss, Ines

Ayami,

I will do when I am back. As I wrote to Megumi, I forgot my downloading cord in Tokyo….

Much love, Ines

Tommy,

Oh my God, she is so beautiful, she just blossomed since last year……she should go to Miss Universe now….

Ines

RJ,

Thank you dear!

Sam,

Yes, they are. How sweet!

They met in France when I was there with Sun, Miss Korea and Hiroko for a training before Miss Universe in Vietnam. It was love at first site for them, but my son was in a relationship at the time with a French girl and he is very loyal in love .

Then she left him a year later, and he moved back to Tokyo. My son was then single and they started their relationship a few month later. Hiroko is like my own daughter also I am very happy to have them be together.

Love, ines

Melissa,

Bonne chance dans votre vie, votre carrière et vos amours.

Tout est toujours lie (tied-up). Croyez en vous et rêver très haut…. bises, Ines

Hiromi.K,

Oh no… I am sorry to hear that you did not place…. Please come to the big event in Omotesando Hills on December 5th. I would love to see you again.

Love, ines

Megumi,

I forgot to bring with me the cord for downloading the pictures from my camera, also I will do it when I am back home in Tokyo.
So many nice shots to share with you.

Much love, Ines

Elvira,

YYes,Ben is hot!!! He is a big sport guy that is why he is good looking….
Big kisses from Hawaii

Ines

Thank you Amy!
We are having such a nice time with my husband’s entire family and with my parents who flew from France to spend the holidays with us in Hawaii.

Love, ines

Moe,

Thank you for writing.
Did you pass the auditions?
Will I see you on December 3rd at the finalists audition, at the Omotesando Hills?

I just arrived in Honolulu with my entire family including my parents. Three nights In Honolulu and then we all fly to Kona to celebrate Thanksgiving with my husband family from Los Angeles. We are staying at the hotel where we got married, at The Orchid Hotel. Will post pictures. Still pending to post pictures of my birthday taken by Hiroki Ikesue. Bye for now, ines

Someone commented on my blog a while ago: -”Ines what do you do on a Sunday?”. Well, please follow me…. It was my day on Sunday, the day before my birthday. Leaving my home, with my Mom and Dad (Dad is shooting photos as always). My boys are with their Dad, learning Hebrew at the Synagogue. Going toward the train station, walking across my little village, inside Tokyo, called Ookayama. I love this place so friendly and safe. I like to walk because my parents can enjoy the surroundings instead of driving my flamboyant Audi Q7 so fast as I usually do. Where I sometimes buy my fruits and veggies…. and arriving at the station. Arriving in Ebisu. taking a taxi direction Roppongi Hills to meet my boys for lunch on the terrace of Salvatore , also with my friends Noelle and T., and Tina with her boys. I love Tokyo’s graffiti, some of the best in the world together with the Chicago and Paris ones. I love it so much that I asked my son Ben to do one on my big entrance gate in my home in France (!!). We arrived in the beautiful commercial complex called Roppongi Hills. With the place where all the Japan movies premieres are happening. and… my boys are already here with my best friend Noelle, yes!! Noelle is one of the smartest women on the planet, this is why I chose her to be my best friend in Japan. I love smart people and very humble like she is. We share pretty much the same values in life and that connects us very much and forever. Friendship is a treasure that life gives you to cherish, I DO. oh…. Noelle runs Guerlain in Japan, my favorite, the new Creme Impériale, a real wonder. I give it as a gift, to Hirako Risa, the other day in a TV studio, while filming for TV Asahi, VOCE BEAUTY. After lunch, soccer for the boys, Noa and Luca…. then all walking to the Harajuku Park, my favorite place for the weekend. If you visit Tokyo you must go there on the weekend, it is really happening. We met at the park with Hiroko, while my 3 boys ride the car with their Dad & my Dad. (Photo my 2 sons Ben & Luca) Three generations… fascinating to me… left my parents, right my babies Hiroko with my Mom and her little dog girl called Moko. Leaving the park where we walked for an hour, so many people around, everyone is doing soemething, playing music, dancing ect. Also so many cute dogs everywhere even rabbits jumpng around their owner without escaping! Darkness is slowly covering Tokyo already… now walking toward the Omotesando Hills. But first stop inside the spectacular shop of Ralph Lauren, looking for shoes for my Dad. You must go and see the shop, the clothes are to die for and the store is amazing. I was asked to take pictures by some customers… sweet! below inside Omotesando Hills. I did not see before looking at the picture, that a girl was snapping picture at me with her mobile phone… funny how I do not see half of what is happening around me…. thank you, sorry if I did not see you… I would of course have taken a picture with you… Family picture!! Then next Shabu-Shabu diner all together. PEACE, ines

see the Tokyo-Queen-Blogger….. Mai’s blog at http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=190133858024 Thank you Mai chan for your sweet words. You ae a little angel going around to Tokyo parties to put a happy smile on people face. Keep your magic going, we need you for a happy life! My friends: Meri Wakui & Akiko Chubachi Finalists of 2007 /Erica Angyal and Shige Kitamura The fabulous, with my baby Akiko and Saleeva (Ozeki Konishiki) Ma Maman & mon Papa (my Mom & Dad!)

To all of you who wrote me a happy birthday on my blog, thank you SOOOOO much! I will post some pictures later on. Also about the silly news regarding a video and Hiroko, it is definitely not her. This is false. We went shopping together with Hiroko today and we spoke about this nonsense, it is ridiculous and false news…. we bought by the way lots of nice dresses for an event together sometimes soon. Hiroko’s mom and my parents are here and we went for diner all together tonight at a shabu shabu restaurant…. one of my favorites! i am the birthday girl also I got to pick the place. From Yukie Submitted on 2009/11/16 at 7:01pm Dear Ines, Hello,I am a housewife who has 1 year old girl.I love her very much but i have a problem myself. Sometimes i got cross with her. Yesterday when I put news paper on the shelves,she took it on her hand and then I hit her. i know it was very bad thing,then I cried and apologized her. I go to counseling now and she told me it was trauma from my father. My mother dead when I was 12 years old. My father took care of me like mother but he always hit me even if I didn’t do any bad things. Then I could’nt say my opinion to my father. I had to stay good girl ,I couldn’t cry even if I missed my mother… I want to stay with my daughter without any violence. Ines,do you have any recommend? I appreciate if you reply to me. Thank you very much for reading. Yukie my reply: Yukie, please don’t harm your daughter…… I understand what you feel when you do it, or when you did it because it happened to one of my friend and she explained to me. The best is that each time you feel anger toward her, just think she is you and you want to protect her. She is a little girl, you will damage her the same way that your father damaged you at the end. YOU are the only one who can protect her from this difficult world that we live in. Please help her to feel happy, give her immense love. This will be your therapy. Also, keep seeing your specialist and get your anger and frustration out of yourself. It helps a lot. You will feel better when you will get the little girl who is inside of you to stop crying. Which means that you must make yourself happy so that you little girl will be happy with you and because of you. Take vitamins, cod liver oil and magnesium each day. Magnesium will help with your mental stress. Ask your doctor or a pharmacist about the dosage. Search for other mothers personal story like yours on internet and learn how they overcame their anger. Good luck and forgive your dad because living with anger is very unhealthy dear. And, love your little one unconditionally. Have good sleep patterns it is important to be emotionally stable. Feel my voice when you feel sad and irritated. When you feel you want to hit her, hug her instead and give her a huge kiss on her head with your eyes closed, and think about something really nice. I hope it will help, it helped my friend and she is now happy and stable. one step at a time, but keep climbing the staircase to happiness…. Love you and your little one, ines FROM ayami Hello, Ines. May I ask you a question? I am really fan of yours. I read some books which were written by you, and, in one of those books, it says that you are going to move to Hawaii within some years. Is that true? The bottom line is that I don’t want you to leave Japan. I want you to stay in Japan more. In fact, I want to be a Miss Universe near the future. Therefore, I want to learn a lot of things (about Miss Universe ,beauty, behavior and mind…more etc..) from you. I am going to try to MUJ next year. Besides, there are many people who are affected by you. So, please stay more! I am sorry about tell you my intimate affairs and my poor English. Love, ayami MY ANSWER: Ayami, hello! I have a good news… I am in the process of producing a series of DVD to be sold on TV early next year. Right now we are doing a lot of filming, witting scenes and content. It is really exciting and I am very busy doing this right now. The DVDs will show my entire training Beauty IN and OUT. In Japanese and English. Wait a little bit more…. and pls welcome to MUJ next year. I wait for you! i will stay in Japan for many more years, do not worry about it! love, ines

My segment is the first one, it really shows my life in Tokyo, my work…. check it out! Special thanks to Antoine (Malin-Hardy) for sending me the link. And to Volodia and his team for creating this program. It airs again Sunday 8 Nov. at 14:56 pm

Please check my latest magazine articles in Maquia my monthly page + an interview together with Mogiken Ichiro the famous brain surgeon, also Bi-Story (in my home) and Harper’s Bazaar (with Christiane Amanpour!) on-sale now…. Thank you!

NRJ12 hier soir en France Program: 20h 35 Tellement vrai Rencontre avec des Français qui ont réussi au Japon. Inès Ligron, installée à Tokyo, est considérée comme la madame de Fontenay locale. Elle est aux commandes du concours Miss Japon depuis douze ans. Sébastien Jarry, quant à lui, travaille dans le domaine du dessin animé, qui le passionne depuis l’enfance. Clara Bodin vit à Tokyo depuis l’adolescence. Elle a été mannequin, animatrice de télévision, et chef d’une agence de relooking. Aujourd’hui, elle se lance dans la chanson. Enfin, Cédric Alberge, filleul de la chanteuse Régine, organise les célèbres soirées «Blacklist» dans lesquelles se pressent les happy few de la capitale nippone.

I am famous for telling everyone NOT TO get any vaccines, here is the proof that I am not crazy… see this and lots more videos later if you still doubt it… Now is the period when your great Doctor will advise you to get the flu vaccine,,,,, well, think it twice before you do it,!! Again see this please: