14 DAY TRIAL // A woman gracing the frontpage banner of the Obamacare website has been the target of cyberbullying.
"Adriana" has been harassed online and dubbed "glitch girl," the "enigmatic Mona Lisa of health care," and "the most despised face on the planet," according to ABC News.
Memes spread and Photoshoped images of her circulated online. She argues that it is not her fault that the Affordable Care Act’s website has crashed.
She was not hired as a model, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services called her at random and asked if she would agree to having pictures of her and her family taken.
She agreed and the rest is history, but she stressed that she was not paid for her time.
While she has been living in Maryland for six and a half years, Adriana is not yet a US citizen. The Colombian native lives with her 21-month-old son and husband and she is a permanent resident.
She is yet to apply for Obamacare although she is eligible for it.
"Like I said it was shocking. It was upsetting. It was sad. We were having a hard day when we read all this.
"And in a way, I'm glad that my son is not old enough to understand, because you know whatever happens to you, it hurts them too," she says.
She asked for her photo to be taken off but that was only done two weeks ago.
"They took the picture down. I wanted the picture down, and they wanted the picture down. I don't think anybody wanted to focus on the picture," she describes.
Officials at the Department of Health and Human Services deny that they have taken down the image after Adriana was harassed.
"Healthcare.gov is a dynamic website. The individuals in the images that we used for the launch of the website redesign in June and through the beginning of open enrollment signed standard releases and understood how their images would be used," a spokesperson says.