Happy birthday to model-actor Jeremy Meeks, born February 7, 1984! He already had a criminal record and had served time when he was arrested in Stockton, CA in 2014 on a felony weapons charge. His mugshot was posted among with those of several other persons on the Stockton Police Dept.'s Facebook page. The police hadn't expected his mugshot to go viral, with thousands of persons responding to his model-ready looks. The picture became a meme. A Twitter page was set up with the hashtag # feloncrushfriday. Meeks was convicted of one count of being a felon in possession of a weapon and was sent to federal prison. He served 13 of a 27-month sentence. Upon his release, he gained a lot of modeling and runway opportunities through an agency that had earlier approached him. He appeared in a music video of a Russian artist. In the 2020s, with many modeling gigs to his credit, Meeks branched out into acting. He has written on his Instagram about his gratitude to God and about his talks to juvenile offenders. His autobiography will be published this coming August.
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