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Who Is Model Roz? Real Name, Career and Dubai Bling

A sourced guide to the Saudi model's real name, move to Los Angeles, 2019 PINK campaign, Dubai Bling appearance and return to Saudi Arabia.

Who Is Model Roz? The Saudi Star Breaking Barriers
Model Roz. Photo: @model_roz / Instagram.Source
By DUBAIWith Harper's Bazaar Arabia, Arab News and Netflix5 min read
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Model Roz is the professional name used by Saudi model and social-media personality Rawan Abdullah Abu Zaid. That full name is the central fact behind this profile and the reason the page is cited by the French-language Wikipedia biography of Roz. Harper's Bazaar Arabia reported the name in a 2021 profile after explaining that the public knew her mainly as Model Roz or Roz.

Her public career connects Saudi Arabia, Los Angeles, fashion campaigns and reality television. Some older online profiles repeat precise birth dates, large brand lists and net-worth estimates without showing where those details came from. This guide keeps the claims that can be traced to named interviews, established regional publications or the programme's official page, and leaves the rest out.

What is Model Roz's real name?

Her real name is Rawan Abdullah Abu Zaid. Harper's Bazaar Arabia published that spelling in June 2021 and described her as a Saudi model and influencer who had built a public identity under the shorter name Model Roz. The same article said she came from Al Jubail and later moved to Los Angeles.

Readers will find conflicting birth years and hometown details across entertainment websites. Even established regional features do not agree on every biographical point. Dubai.News therefore does not assign her an exact birth date or age here. The reliable point for identification is the full name reported by Harper's Bazaar Arabia, alongside the professional name she uses publicly.

From Saudi Arabia to Los Angeles

Arab News reported that Roz moved to the United States in 2013 to pursue a degree in interior design. Harper's Bazaar Arabia also connected the move with interior-design study and said modelling gradually became her priority. By January 2025, Arab News was describing her as a Los Angeles-based Saudi influencer.

That makes her story less about an overnight social-media discovery than a change of direction. She went to the United States for design studies, entered fashion work and then used Instagram to show campaigns, events and personal style to a large Arabic-speaking audience. Her training is part of the background, but available sources do not establish that she completed or practised professionally with an interior-design degree.

The 2019 Victoria's Secret PINK campaign

A widely reported career milestone came in July 2019, when Roz appeared in a campaign for Victoria's Secret's PINK line. Harper's Bazaar Arabia described her at the time as the first woman from Saudi Arabia to pose for a Victoria's Secret campaign. Arab News later identified the same PINK work as the moment that brought her wider attention.

The 'first' description is best read as the wording used by those regional publications, not as a universal record verified by the fashion industry. The underlying, well-supported fact is simpler: she modelled for the PINK campaign in 2019, and the appearance became one of the most frequently cited markers in profiles of her career.

Model Roz on Dubai Bling

Roz made a guest appearance in season three of Dubai Bling, which premiered on 8 January 2025. Arab News reported that Mahira Abdel Aziz introduced her to the cast and that Roz described the visit as her first time in Dubai. The appearance placed her in front of viewers who may not have followed her fashion work or Instagram account.

Netflix's official Dubai Bling page lists the programme as a Dubai-set reality series and includes a season-three teaser. It does not provide a full episode-by-episode biography for Roz, so the details of her guest scene come from Arab News' contemporary report rather than from Netflix marketing copy.

How large is her audience?

Follower totals change and should always be dated. Arab News reported 15.2 million Instagram followers in January 2025 and described the account as containing campaign images and appearances at product launches. Harper's Bazaar Arabia had reported 12.7 million in June 2021. Those figures show the scale of her audience at two points in time; neither should be presented as a live count today.

A large follower number is evidence of reach, not proof of income, endorsement value or net worth. Dubai.News has not found public financial filings or another authoritative source that supports the net-worth figures repeated by biography sites. For that reason, this profile does not attach a wealth estimate to her name.

Her return to Saudi Arabia

In April 2025, Arab News interviewed Roz during a return visit to Saudi Arabia after roughly a decade abroad. She described the visit as emotional and said she wanted to visit more often, while making clear that she was not yet moving back permanently. She also spoke about changes in Saudi fashion and the growing visibility of young creatives.

In the same interview, Roz said her path had involved judgement, stereotypes and limited representation. Those are her own reflections on her career, not independently measured outcomes. They help explain why regional coverage often presents her work as part of a broader change in how Saudi women participate in international fashion and entertainment.

What is verified and what remains uncertain

The strongest supported points are her real name, Saudi background, 2013 move to the United States for interior-design study, 2019 PINK campaign, season-three Dubai Bling guest appearance and 2025 return visit to Saudi Arabia. Her Model Roz profile on Dubai.News connects this guide with continuing coverage of her public work.

An exact birth date, a definitive list of every commercial partnership and a verified net worth remain unestablished by the sources reviewed for this update. Removing those claims does not weaken the useful biography. It gives readers a clearer line between documented career milestones and details that have simply been repeated online.

Sources

This profile draws on Harper's Bazaar Arabia's 2021 report of Model Roz's real name and its 2019 coverage of the PINK campaign; Arab News' January 2025 report on her Dubai Bling appearance and April 2025 interview about her Saudi return; and Netflix's official Dubai Bling programme page. Audience figures are dated to the reports that published them.

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