My friend Zuleika Soler is a model and pageant beauty queen who I happened to meet at Kean University when I was a student. I photographed her for a painting when I was still a student and kept in touch with her mainly through Instagram. In 2019 I saw a selfie she posted on IG and asked if I could paint it and she replied yes. I tweaked the photo a bit to add a crop showing the mirror's edge which reveals a piece of the room behind it.