Jillian Mercado

Jillian Mercado is an American actress and fashion model represented by the CAA agency in Los Angeles. She became known as one of the few professional models with a visible physical disability. Jillian Mercado shows up in nude searches, but her scene in The L Word Generation Q is underwear only. Mercado's birthday is April 30, and she was born in 1987. She uses a wheelchair because of muscular dystrophy and has made that visible in her modelling. Mercado is part of a newer wave of models who question narrow ideas of beauty. She speaks out against the lack of disability representation in fashion and the stigma that still follows it.