She was born in Australia but spent most of her life in the US, particularly California.
In a GQ interview in 2015, she recalled spending three months every winter in Hawaii with her dad as he surfed.
Sahara Ray built an online profile amassing hundreds of thousands of followers and launching her own swimwear company, Sahara Ray Swim.
No cause of death has been made public but the model revealed in 2024 that she had been diagnosed with Guillain-Barre syndrome, a condition in which the body’s immune system attacks the nerves.
“So basically, right now I’m paralysed from the tops of my upper thighs all the way down to my feet. I can’t walk at all … I am primarily in a wheelchair and I have a walker,” she told fans on social media at the time.
She said she had been struck by a drunk driver and that had “sent my body into shock which sent my body into this crazy sickness”.
Her final post on Instagram, made several weeks ago, was a touching tribute to her daughter Snow, in which she called her “my whole world”.
Ray was romantically linked to Bieber in 2016 after the paparazzi snapped the pair skinny-dipping in Hawaii, the Sun reported.
The pair reportedly met while Bieber was recording in Atlanta.