Mimi Elashiry, Fashion model and Internet personality who has attracted over 800,000 Instagram followers. She also maintains a popular photo blog on her personal website. Before launching her Instagram account and rapidly rising to fame as a model, she trained as a dancer and auditioned successfully for New York's Joffrey Ballet School. Her first modeling campaign was for the LENNI fashion label. Born Ismeen Marlane Ashraf Elashiry, she grew up in a suburb of Sydney, Australia as the daughter of an Australian mother and an Egyptian father. She and Catherine McNeil are both well known Australian models.