Background
Ailabouni moved to Austria when she was two years old and grew up in Amstetten and Schörfling am Attersee, where she went to school.
Ailabouni moved to Austria when she was two years old and grew up in Amstetten and Schörfling am Attersee, where she went to school.
She played the role of Juliet in Shakespeare"s Romeo and Juliet in the school"s drama group. She has two brothers. Ailabouni plays basketball and played in the Austrian U16 team
However, due to her shy personality, the judges questioned her limelight ability and saw her struggling several times when she was required to perform out of her comfort zone.
Withdrawal from ONEeins contract
She was managed by Günther Klum"s Management ONEeins but decided barely after a year to leave the contract due to her feeling that she was given only mediocre, no modelling related work. Ailabouni moved to Paris where she was taken under contract by PARS, the modelling agency of Peyman Amin who was a judge on GNTM but left before her participation.
She also managed to get signed with other modeling agencies, Eskimo Models, City Models in Paris, Fashionmodel in Milan, Red in New York and Elite Model Management in London. She walked for G-Star SS2011-collection in New York and walked the Berlin Fashion Week the following season.
She has also appeared in an editorial for Vogue Italia"s December 2012 issue.
She also walked for 17 different labels at New York fashion week in 2012. In 2014, Ailabouni was the winning model in Project Runway (season 13).