This is a picture of my Niece Jennifer, who is an actress, model, and budding entrepreneur.
The stock photo to the left has appeared just about everywhere, which is why computer geeks have dubbed her "The Everywhere Girl".
Jennifer had this picture taken when she was in her early twenties for a stock photo company. These pictures have subsequently appeared on billboards, web sites, books, magazine covers, and packaging in materials all over the world.
The pictures became something of an internet phenomenon when an online magazine called The Inquirer started writing articles about how her picture was appearing everywhere. They labeled her The Everywhere Girl and people all over the world started reporting sitings of her picture.
The The Inquirer started making up stories about the girl in the pictures. They wove elaborate imaginary stories about her adventures, without actually knowing who she was.
Jennifer, whose professional name is Jennifer Chandra, found out she was an internet phenomenon about a year after it had started. She contacted The Inquirer and told them who she was.
When the pictures were first taken it seemed she got paid really well. However, when her pictures appeared all over the world, without her getting any royalties, it didn't seem like she got paid so well after all.
Oh well, that's life.
The scope of the distribution of these pictures has made her quite the internet phenomena, particularly in England. This would be more impressive, of course, if it weren't for the British having nothing better to do with their time than obsessing about American models.
If they were Americans, of course, they would have more useful things to do. Things like memorizing baseball statistics back to 1938, buying a larger SUV, or debating the spiritual subtleties of "Lost".
Ah, being an American is such an existential romp.
Jennifer is currently living in Los Angeles where she is acting, going to school, and working with Stan (her main squeeze) in a growing internet business.
We are all very proud of her.