A woman became widely known as 'mugshot beauty' following a series of mugshots taken from her arrests in Florida.
Sara Jane Isbister's online fame came from a series of police booking photos over the course of decade, stemming from a string of petty crimes.
People were struck by her captivating look, as Sara's first mugshot at 21 was taken over reckless driving and failing to pay a speeding fine.
Additional arrests also went viral after Maxim magazine featured her in a gallery of 'ridiculously photogenic' female mugshots.
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"I didn’t realise there were real consequences at that age. I was just so reckless. I just wanted to be the baddest of the baddest," Sara, now 34, told The Sun.
While some were simply admiring the way she looked, others were spreading fake rumours online - like the supposed 'murder of a house pet'.
“I was livid and upset,” Sara said, calling the claims 'totally untrue'.
“I had no idea how much this was going to screw things up for me.
“This is all people are going to know me for now. But then I kept doing stupid things.
“I didn’t realise people were going to string them together and make articles out of it.”
What 'mugshot beauty' looks like now
Sara says her 'life is now so far from' those mugshot photos.
“I was raised with morals and values but I was just so edgy,” the artist and writer admitted.
“Everything had to be more and more hard core.”
Back in 2012, Sara said in response to Perez Hilton likening her to Angelina Jolie that she is 'just another normal girl who has hobbies and dreams just like everybody else'.
"Except my past has been thrown in my face because it has been publicly leaked onto the internet," she added.
A drug-filled past
Sara, however, thinks her troubled past was heavily influenced by the death of her father, whom she described as her best friend.
Around that time, she worked as a waitress at Hooters before moving into cocktail waitressing and eventually stripping, environments she says exposed her to drugs.
“All the problems in my life have stemmed from using drugs,” she said.
“It’s never been anything good that has stemmed from that.
“When I was using drugs and stripping, the future was not the first thing I was thinking about.
“Every day is what’s going on right in front of me, which is a very dangerous way of living.”
Letters from prison
Sara said it got to stage where she was receiving fan letters in prison.
“There was one murder guy who was really cool to be honest,” she said.
One of his letters warned her 'to live this life while you’re young, just get out of it otherwise you’ll end up like me'.
“He was actually pretty nice and encouraging,” Sara added.
“He even put a picture of himself in there.”
Other letters, meanwhile, were a lot more 'creepy', as one inmate - another convicted murderer - became obsessed with her.
Referring to himself as a 'juggalo', which is a follower of a violent clown-themed culture, he would write that she 'better be ready to go with him'.
“He wrote at least five letters to me and then he would get really angry at me when I didn’t write him back,” Sara explained.
“He was a creep and a weirdo. It was scary because these people were sending the mail to my home, so they knew where I lived.”
Anish Vij