Tala Raassi born in Iran is a bikini designer for her own swimwear line Dar Be Dar[1], she has designed bikinis for the Miss Universe 2010 pageant.[2] Tala Raassi has told in interviews that when she was sixteen years old and living in Iran she was punished with 40 lashes for showing too much skin after being arrested and prosecuted for it.[3] Raassi after this incident moved to the USA were she today lives.[4]