Jenny Rei is an international model from Dusseldorf, Germany who worked for magazines like Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Elle and was the face of brands like Dove, Chanel, and Bvlgari nowadays living in Los Angeles, formerly in India and the Middle East. 

  Jenny and her brother got casted by a family friend for big advertising campaigns in Germany and she modeled for the first time at the age of 6. At 8 she wrote, and directed her first school play. 

She took musical classes and acted in a German Tv show, and played a featured role in a German cinema movie.  

After finishing school in 2009 Jenny went to India for internships in local NGO's and traveled all over Asia. In 2010 she volunteered in a human rights organization in Israel when MC2 Models signed her.

Jenny enrolled at Heinrich-Heine University in her hometown to study politics and social science.

The self-taught, Jenny Rei, started draping and selling costumes and gowns with her own hand-made embroidery for friends at the age of 16. In 2013  she picked up the once hobby and started a custom-made line called 'Rei by Jenny Rei'. Her brand has been featured in Editorials of Vogue and Elle India and on superstars like Priyanka Chopra and Sonam Kapoor.

In 2015 Vogue India featured her as one of India's Sexiest Supermodels. 

 Jenny is an ex-competitive swimmer, a free diver and a mermaid by heart. 

One of her biggest passions has always been the ocean, and protecting it.  2018 Rei launched her ongoing 2 year art project 'Trash Mermaid' to raise awareness about the many issues that threaten our oceans like the plastic footprint we leave on the planet and overfishing. 

 www.trashmermaid.com

2019 Jenny Rei made it into the Top 10 of the Soho House Script Writing Contest worldwide with her script 'Trash Mermaid'. She's currently doing the pre-production for the film. An exhibition of her work as well as multiple coastal clean up days are planned around Jenny's former home: Mumbai, India.

Recently she spends most of her time in Los Angeles modeling, writing and working on her ideas.

She is signed with Natural Models LA, and embraces body positivity, and female empowerment.

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