Larissa Nery Height, Age, Children, Biography

Bio/Wiki
Profession	Hairdresser
Physical Stats
Height (approx.)	5' 6" (168 cm)
Eye Colour	Brown
Hair Colour	Brown
Personal Life
Date of Birth	2 November 1996 (Saturday)
Age (as of 2025)	29 Years
Zodiac sign	Scorpio
Nationality	Brazilian
Hometown	Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Religion	Christianity
Tattoo(s)	• On Arms and Belly: Multiple tattoos, including flowers, ferns, and a bird • On Both Legs: Multiple tattoos, including a text and a butterfly • On the Right Side of Neck and Near Right Ear: A cross
Social Media	Instagram
Family
Children	Son- None Daughter- Laura Nery Andrade

Some Lesser Known Facts About Larissa Nery

• Larissa Nery owns a salon in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
  

  Larissa Nery, while styling a client’s hair for her 15th birthday celebration

• She has lived her entire life in Brazil and has never travelled abroad, including to India.

• In 2017, her friend Matheus Ferrero, a photographer, took her portrait and later uploaded it on Unsplash, a free stock image website, where it became publicly available for anyone to use.

• On 5 November 2025, Rahul Gandhi showed Larissa’s photo during a live press conference on YouTube, alleging she had cast 22 votes in Haryana’s Assembly election as part of his “vote theft” claim.
  

  Rahul Gandhi, while showcasing Larissa Nery’s picture during a live press conference on YouTube on 5 November 2025

• Rahul Gandhi asked, “Yeh kaun hai?” (Who is she?) while showing her picture, which quickly went viral on Indian social media and news channels.

• The following day, Brazilian journalist Luiz Fernando Menezes from Aos Fatos, a Brazil-based fact-checking news agency, contacted Nery after ThePrint partnered with his outlet to identify the “mystery woman.”

• When Menezes first contacted her, Nery suspected it was a scam. She only realised he was a genuine journalist after the story was published.

• Nery was shocked to learn her old photo was misused in an Indian election, calling the situation a “comedy” and absurd that her picture was used to scam voters in another country.

• Nery later posted several Instagram stories, where she reacted with shock and humour to her photo being used in an Indian election. In another post, she included a clip from Rahul Gandhi’s press conference, captioned in Portuguese:
  

  Guys, how crazy — I’m famous in India as the ‘mysterious Brazilian model.”

Brazilian model Larissa Nery reacts after Rahul Gandhi alleges her old photo was used in Haryana voter fraud

She claimed that the picture being shown in Gandhi’s presser is of her when she was “about 20-years-old.”

“Folks, let me tell you the gossip. You’re laughing too much,… pic.twitter.com/DZsT9Q9z0F

— Maktoob (@MaktoobMedia) November 6, 2025

• Nery later clarified that the photo used was very old and that she is not a professional model. She had simply posed for the photo as a favour to her friend Ferrero, and she no longer knows where he is.

• After the case, Matheus Ferrero faced online backlash from Indian users, due to which he deactivated his Instagram account and removed the photo from Unsplash to prevent further misuse.

• Ferrero later pleaded with Indian internet users to leave him and Nery alone, saying that the situation had crossed into harassment.