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	Diaz-Rahi is now a [[pottery]] artist in New York City.<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Yamila Diaz Rahi Ceramics \|url=https://yamiladiazrahi.com/ \|access-date=2022-12-18 \|website=Yamila Diaz Rahi Ceramics \|language=en}}</ref> She is featured in the short film 'Yamila Diaz Rahi: An Artist Life in Poetic Form' which won the award for best experimental film at the Cannes Shorts film festival in 2022.<ref>{{cite web \|title=Awards page for director Amhalise Morgan \|url=https://amhalisemorgan.com/Awards}}</ref>		Diaz-Rahi is now a [[pottery]] artist in New York City.<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Yamila Diaz Rahi Ceramics \|url=https://yamiladiazrahi.com/ \|access-date=2022-12-18 \|website=Yamila Diaz Rahi Ceramics \|language=en \|archive-date=2022-12-18 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221218084958/https://yamiladiazrahi.com/ \|url-status=dead }}</ref> She is featured in the short film 'Yamila Diaz Rahi: An Artist Life in Poetic Form' which won the award for best experimental film at the Cannes Shorts film festival in 2022.<ref>{{cite web \|title=Awards page for director Amhalise Morgan \|url=https://amhalisemorgan.com/Awards}}</ref>

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{{Short description|Argentine model}}
{{Infobox model
| name = Yamila Diaz-Rahi
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| caption = Diaz-Rahi in a photoshoot for Revista Gente in 1994
| birth_place = [[Buenos Aires]], Argentina
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1976|3|9}}
| haircolor = Dark brown
| eyecolor = Green
| height = {{height|m=1.70}}
| website = not currently hosted
}}
'''Yamila Díaz-Rahi''' (born March 9, 1976<ref>French 'Sport' magazine, published December 2008</ref>), also '''Yamila Diaz''', is an Argentine model. She has appeared in the ''[[Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue]]'' a total of 11 times, and made the cover of the magazine first in 2002 and again in 2006. She also featured in the 50th anniversary SI edition in 2014 titled "The Legends".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://models.com/work/sports-illustrated-swimsuit-issue-legends/231942|title=Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Legends|website=Models.com}}</ref>

==Background==
Díaz was born in [[Buenos Aires]], Argentina. Her father is of [[Spanish people|Spanish]] and [[Lebanese people|Lebanese]] descent and her mother, [[Spanish people|Spanish]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.beirutnightlife.com/news/prominent-lebanese-yamila-diaz-rahi/|title = Prominent Lebanese: Yamila Diaz-Rahi - BNL|date = 8 July 2010}}</ref> Her father was a doctor and her mother was a health care manager. While studying [[Economics]] in Buenos Aires in 1996, she took a holiday in [[Uruguay]] where she was discovered by a scout from a Milan modeling agency.<ref name = "fmd_bio">{{cite web | title = Profile of fashion model Yamila Diaz Rahi | work = [[Fashion Model Directory]] | publisher = FashionOne Group | url = http://www.fashionmodeldirectory.com/models/Yamila_Diaz+Rahi | access-date = March 14, 2009}}</ref><ref name = "askmen_bio">{{cite web | title = Yamila Diaz | work = [[AskMen.com]] | publisher = [[IGN]] | url = http://www.askmen.com/celebs/women/models_60/65_yamila_diaz.html | access-date = March 14, 2009}}</ref>

== Modeling career ==
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After working in [[Milan]] for a few years, she was featured in 1999 in the ''[[Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue]]'', and made the cover of the magazine first in 2002 and again in 2006. On the 2006 cover, she appears with several other models for an "All-Stars" special.

Diaz-Rahi has also appeared on the cover of numerous magazines such as ''[[GQ (magazine)|GQ]]'', ''[[Glamour (magazine)|Glamour]]'', ''[[Maxim (magazine)|Maxim]]'', ''[[ELLE|Elle]]'', ''[[Marie Claire]]'', ''[[Harper's Bazaar]], [[Shape (magazine)|Shape]]''.<ref name = "fmd_bio"/> She has appeared in the [[Victoria's Secret]] catalog, and in advertisements for [[bebe stores|Bebe]], [[Emanuel Ungaro]]'s ''Fleur de Diva'' [[perfume]], Replay Jeans, the ''[[Cool Water (perfume)|Cool Water]]'' perfume by Davidoff and other products.<ref name = "fmd_bio"/><ref name = "askmen_bio"/> In 2003 she appeared (billed under her own name) in a commercial for [[GE Appliances|GE Profile]] appliances in which she met and married a (fictional) "professor of nanotechnology" to illustrate "the perfect marriage of beauty and brains" supposedly constituted by the appliances.<ref>[https://youtube.com/watch?v=B77Jg9XpF4s "Beauty and Brains" commercial produced for GE Profile by BBDO New York]</ref>

She was the first [[Latino (demonym)|Latin]] spokesmodel in [[CoverGirl]] history.<ref name = "si_2007_bio">{{cite magazine | title = 2007 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Bio - Yamila Diaz-Rahi | magazine = [[Sports Illustrated]] | publisher = [[Time Inc.]] | url = http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/2007_swimsuit/models/yamila_diazrahi/bio.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070225190120/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/2007_swimsuit/models/yamila_diazrahi/bio.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = February 25, 2007 | access-date = March 14, 2009}}</ref> Diaz-Rahi also starred in the 1999 [[Italian language|Italian]] film ''[[The Fish in Love]]''.<ref name = "si_2007_bio"/>

== After modeling ==
Diaz-Rahi is now a [[pottery]] artist in New York City.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Yamila Diaz Rahi Ceramics |url=https://yamiladiazrahi.com/ |access-date=2022-12-18 |website=Yamila Diaz Rahi Ceramics |language=en}}</ref> She is featured in the short film 'Yamila Diaz Rahi: An Artist Life in Poetic Form' which won the award for best experimental film at the Cannes Shorts film festival in 2022.<ref>{{cite web |title=Awards page for director Amhalise Morgan |url=https://amhalisemorgan.com/Awards}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{Fashionmodel|name=Yamila Diaz Rahi}}
* {{IMDb name | id=1146929 | name=Yamila Diaz Rahi}}

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