English singer and rapper Tinie Tempah was doing a photo shoot in Nigeria while visiting his parents' home country.
Tempah was photographed by Ty Bello, a Nigerian photographer and singer/songwriter.
BuzzFeed News reported that a local bread seller came into some of the shots.
The woman immediately caught Bello's eye and she enlisted the help of her Instagram followers to find out who she was.
Bello wanted to work with the woman to build a portfolio to get her a modeling contract.
Instagram followers who lived in the area told her to leave a message with people where the shoot was, and she eventually connected with the woman, whose name is Olajumoke Orisaguna.
Orisaguna told Bello that she was a hair stylist in Ire, in the Osun state of Nigeria. She moved from Ire to Lagos, Nigeria, to work at a distant relative's bakery to make more money to take care of her children.
The 27-year-old took 14-month-old daughter with her and left her husband and 5-year-old child in Ire.
"This lady belonged in front of my camera," Bello said. "After a conversation with her husband telling him the story of our meeting, I decided I was going to photograph her that very afternoon."
The shoot that followed ended up being for the Nigerian magazine "This Day Style" and included Orisaguna 14-month-old-daughter, Grace.
"She stepped in front of my camera and I almost couldn't recognize her. She moved different too," Bello said. "Jumoke looked straight into my lens, emoting like she had done this all her life. I knew we had found a star."
By Monday, Orisaguna reportedly signed with Few Model Management, a modeling agency.
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