Who is that model

I'm on the MRT now, and I have already seen her photo twice in the last 10 minutes. She's one of the most ubiquitous models in the world and no one really knows anything about her—not even her full name! When blogger an2netluv wrote a long post about seeing her everywhere a couple of months ago, a few shreds of information started to come to light.

Turns out Esquire Philippines had done a short profile on her in the late spring—but even though they interviewed her by email, she refused to disclose her surname.

All we know about her is that her first name is Ariane, her father is French-Canadian and her mother is Chinese, and she is one of the most popular stock-image models working today. Over the past year, due to popular demand, Ariane has set up an official Facebook fan page , where she explains:. Once she started stock shoots, she liked them better. Speaking of smiles, her Blue Steel is the toothy grin.

Or maybe the mouth-wide-open smile. Like here. And here. Also, here. Living The world's most famous stock photo model is a mysterious Canadian Rebecca Givens has launched memes, appeared in ads around the globe and perfected the toothy grin. Photo, iStock. We were told the problem was to do with breast-holding. There is an algorithm that flags images where breasts are being squeezed. Another alert had apparently been triggered for aggressive grabbing of breasts, but none of that was going on in these images.

In October, Instagram agreed to change its policies, and we are still working with it on trying to eliminate the censoring of plus-size women, and black plus-size women in particular. This image of Nyome was taken soon after the initial algorithm update, in a second shoot we arranged to celebrate and test it, but also because we wanted to see each other and make art together again.

We have both successfully posted this picture on Instagram, and it is more revealing than those that were originally censored. I feel very strongly about that. The model who made Instagram apologise: Alexandra Cameron's best photograph. Photograph: Alexandra Cameron. Read more. Reuse this content.