Ines Rau Bio
Ines Rau is a French transgender model, actress, writer, and transgender rights advocate. She was born Ines-Loan Rau on March 18, 1989, in Paris, France. Playboy named her its November 2017 Playmate at 28. Her appearance came during Playboy's contemporary era of international and digital publishing.
Rau has enhanced breasts, brown eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 35-25-35.
That additional material adds several important concrete details, especially the connection to Caroline Cossey, Rau’s Ibiza period, the 2013 OOB shoot, and the specific historical context of her two Playboy appearances. I’d revise the bio to:
Ines Rau’s modeling story was preceded by a period in Ibiza, where she began dancing for DJs after turning 18 and became friends with David Guetta. Several years later, after becoming open about being transgender, she posed nude with model Tyson Beckford for the French luxury magazine OOB in 2013. The shoot was an early high-profile expression of an identity she had previously kept private.
Rau had transitioned at 16 with the support of her parents after being inspired by the story of British model Caroline Cossey. She subsequently lived as a woman without publicly discussing her transgender history until her twenties. Rau later described the secrecy as rooted in fear of being regarded as different, while coming out allowed her to speak more confidently about self-acceptance and transgender rights.
Playboy first photographed Rau for its May 2014 A-Z issue in a feature titled “Evolution,” conceived around expanding understandings of gender identity. The appearance made her the second known transgender woman featured in Playboy after Cossey, who had appeared in 1981 before being outed against her will and returned to the magazine in 1991. Rau’s participation was different in one crucial respect: she entered the feature already publicly identifying as transgender.
Three years later, Playboy returned to Rau for a historic assignment. Cooper Hefner announced in October 2017 that she would become the magazine’s first openly transgender Playmate, comparing the decision with Hugh Hefner’s selection of Jennifer Jackson as Playboy’s first Black Playmate in 1965. Rau remembered thinking during the shoot about the difficult periods of her youth and described being chosen as a Playmate as an extraordinary personal recognition.
The visibility surrounding Rau’s modeling increasingly supported her advocacy. She spoke publicly about transgender and women’s rights while identifying environmental protection as an especially important cause, including climate change, forests, animals and clean air. Her Playboy history consequently encompassed two distinct milestones: the 2014 “Evolution” pictorial and, three years later, her selection as the magazine’s first openly transgender Playmate.
