Olympic breakdancer Raygun has debuted a surprising new look.
The Australian Olympian, real name Rachael Gunn, became a global source of ridicule during the Paris Olympics.
Dressed in an Australian tracksuit that looked more like a cricket uniform than a breakdancing get-up, Raygun hopped like a kangaroo and slid around the floor like a snake in a routine that did not impress the judges.
On Sunday, the breakdancer looked completely different as the cover this week’s Stellar Magazine and her very first fashion shoot was shared to Instagram.
On the magaaine’s cover, Raygun swapped her green and gold tracksuit and baseball cap for a figure-hugging electric blue dress with flared sleeves.
In the glamour fashion spread she also donned a black halter neck featuring a plunging V neckline, a striking cream jumpsuit, and a form fitting little black dress.
The academic-turned-breakdancer looks defiant as she poses hands on hips against a yellow nylon and bright blue backdrops.
Raygun wore her hair slicked back into a long pony tail for the shoot and went for a bronzed makeup look with dark red lipstick.
She completed her look with a pair of strappy black heels.
Olympic breakdancer Raygun has debuted a surprising new look
Olympic breakdancer Raygun has debuted a surprising new look. The Australian Olympian, real name Rachael Gunn, became a global source of ridicule during the Paris Olympics. Pictured
The accompanying cover line reads, ‘What Raygun did next?’, alongside a quote taken from the accompanying interview inside.
‘You did not bring me down. You did not succeed. I will stand by what I did,’ she says.
Raygun keeps a folder on her phone of her own memes that she said helped to keep her sane over the past few months.
‘Can you believe that?’ she asked her interviewer as she showed them a selection of her favourites – including an image of her dancing on the rear windscreen of a Jeep.
‘How good is that? I’m going to get that for my car.’
‘I’ve got a digital pool room of all the best ones.’
On Sunday, the breakdancer looked completely different as the cover this week’s Stellar Magazine and her very first fashion shoot was shared to Instagram.
On Thursday, the breakdancer is totally transformed on the cover of this week’s Stellar Magazine
Raygun was comprehensively beaten in all of her battle rounds at this year’s Paris Olympics, while her routine went viral, even mocked by the likes of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
In a huge twist, she returned from Paris to be named the No.1 breakdancer in the world despite not even coming close to winning a medal due to a quirk in the way dancers are graded.
On her worst days, the overnight icon said she’ll scroll through the folder to remind herself that she also found joy in her experience, as well as the torrents of public abuse.
‘It’s been so hard to process,’ she said.
‘My whole world has changed. My identity has changed. My relationships have changed, for better or for worse. It’s in times like these that you find out who your real friends are, unfortunately.
‘And because things are still changing, it’s just impossible to wrap your head around. It’s hard to predict what it’s going to be like when I leave the house.’
‘I’m a confident woman who is 37, without kids, with a career, having fun,’ Raygun said
In her first-ever fashion photoshoot and the accompanying interview, the unlikely Aussie icon said she boiled the reason for most of the public outrage directed at her down to her age and child-free status.
‘I’m a confident woman who is 37, without kids, with a career, having fun,’ she told Stellar.
In another glamour shot, Raygun posed sitting against a bright blue wall with her hands clasped behind her head and one knee drawn up to her chest.
She wears a bold red lip and makes direct eye contact with the camera, as if daring people to challenge her.
Since returning home to Australia early last month, Raygyn said she’s deliberately kept a low profile and turned down many media appearances and reality TV gigs.
‘There was so much hate and emotion that I needed to wait for everyone to calm down a bit.’
But now she is readying several new projects and herself to enter the limelight.
Additionally, she’s receiving a new honour on the front lawns of Aussie homes, with handmade tributes to her routine being erected ahead of Halloween on October 31.
A Melbourne resident has immortalised her kangaroo hopping routine with a paper mache effigy complete with Aussie tracksuit and Olympics flag.
The artist remains unknown, but a local called into radio station 3AW to let them know the ‘statue’ had been erected on a nature strip in their suburb.
‘Following on from her huge success of breakdancing in Paris, Raygun is now dancing in the streets of the north,’ the caller said.
The Olympic breakdancer is shaping up to be a popular choice for decorations and costumes on Halloween
Another Raygun tribute has been shared on social media ahead of Halloween
3AW host Ross Stevenson was stunned when shown an image of the tribute.
‘That is amazing,’ he said.
‘That is awesome. Someone’s put up a statue of Raygun.
‘Is that in someone’s backyard or in a public thoroughfare?’
The caller replied: ‘It’s in a public thoroughfare, on the nature strip.’
Stevenson said: ‘That is outstanding.
‘Look at the balance they’ve managed to achieve there with that statue. How do you do that?’
It is not the only Raygun tribute snapped ahead of Halloween.
Another home in Melbourne has used a fake skeleton, posing it in the kangaroo hopping dance position and dressing it in the same tracksuit.
Another skeleton tribute has been snapped at an unknown Australian location, complete with LED red glowing eyes.
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