Ines-Loan Rau
Early life
Rau was born in Paris and is of French-North African descent.
Rau
Trans woman and underwent gender-affirming surgery at the age of 16, after being inspired by the life story of English trans model
Caroline Cossey.
Career
After turning 18, Rau started dancing for DJs in
Ibiza, during which she became friends with
David Guetta.
In 2013, at age 23, she first posed nude with
Tyson Beckford for a spread in
OOB, a French luxury magazine, shortly after coming out as transgender.
In May 2014, she first appeared in
Playboys "A-Z issue" in a spread titled "Evolution" that aimed to depict the growing acceptance of gender identities beyond the male-female binary.
She became the second transgender woman to be featured in
Playboy after Cossey in 1981 and the first who came out voluntarily (Cossey was outed against her will and reappeared in the magazine in 1991). She was also rumoured to have been in a relationship with
France footballer Kylian Mbappé.
Following her magazine appearances, Rau worked as a model for Nicole Miller, Alexis Bittar and Barneys New York.
In October 2017, Cooper Hefner, son of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, announced that Rau would appear as "Playboy Playmate of the Month" in the magazine's November/December 2017 issue, making her the first openly transgender woman to be featured this way.
Activism
Following her coming-out, Rau became more active campaigning for transgender rights. In 2016, she appeared on the TF1 news format
Sept à Huit on an episode focused on her life.
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