Yamila Díaz

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Yamila Diaz-Rahi (* 9. March 1976 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine model of Spanish descent.

Life

Yamila Diaz was born in Argentina as the daughter of a doctor and the manager of a nursing home. She has Lebanese and Spanish ancestry and two sisters named Maria and Yael.

She studied economics in Buenos Aires and had no plans to become a model. She was discovered by an employee of a model agency in 1996 on a beach in Uruguay when she was vacationing there with her family. She then went to Milan , but initially had relatively little success and worked for several years mainly for mail order catalogs. It wasn't until she was photographed for the Sports Illustrated swimwear calendar in 1999 that her career as a model really started.

She has been photographed for Marie Claire magazines , Spanish and US Elle magazines , and the European edition of GQ , Max and Shape. In 2000 she was photographed alongside Estella Warren and Laetitia Casta for Sports Illustrated.

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