She was born in Australia but spent most of her life in the US, particularly California.<\/p>\n
In a GQ interview in 2015, she recalled spending three months every winter in Hawaii with her dad as he surfed.<\/p>\n
Sahara Ray built an online profile amassing hundreds of thousands of followers and launching her own swimwear company, Sahara Ray Swim.<\/p>\n
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\u2019s immune system attacks the nerves.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo basically, right now I\u2019m paralysed from the tops of my upper thighs all the way down to my feet. I can\u2019t walk at all … I am primarily in a wheelchair and I have a walker,\u201d she told fans on social media at the time. <\/p>\n
She said she had been struck by a drunk driver and that had \u201csent my body into shock which sent my body into this crazy sickness\u201d.<\/p>\n
Her final post on Instagram, made several weeks ago, was a touching tribute to her daughter Snow, in which she called her \u201cmy whole world\u201d.<\/p>\n
Ray was romantically linked to Bieber in 2016 after the paparazzi snapped the pair skinny-dipping in Hawaii, the Sun reported.<\/p>\n
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