Adriana, who won’t share her last name with the press, told ABC News she has been the victim of cyberbullying since the Oct. 1 Obamacare rollout. That’s the day the “Obamacare girl’s” eager smile met many Americans who still were unable to get insured through the exchanges because of a glitchy website.
“I mean, I don’t know why people should hate me because it’s just a photo. I didn’t design the website. I didn’t make it fail, so I don’t think they should have any reasons to hate me,” Adriana told ABC News.
She said she wasn’t even paid for the photo–a tall price to pay for being last month’s most infamous face in America.
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The Onion Photoshopped it, Colbert joked about it, Republicans scorned it and questions swirled: Who was this woman?
She also told ABC News she was neither for nor against the Affordable Care Act, and she is a legal U.S. permanent resident.
The Healthcare.gov design has since dumped Adriana’s signature photo, claiming the plan was to keep the website “dynamic.”
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