This mugshot portrait of Meagan Mccullough nee Simmons, taken three years has casued marriage proposals and declarations of love after it went viral. Picture: Hillsborough County Source: Supplied
A MUGSHOT of a woman has gone viral, prompting declarations of love from across the world and even marriage proposals.
Yet the mugshot of the "attractive convict", arrested for allegedly drink driving, is not a model or actress as people presumed. It's a mother-of-four, who is a medical assistant, from Florida, US.
Meagan Mccullough, 27, of Zephyrhills, as she was then known, was arrested for DUI in July 2010 leading to her mugshot being taken in an orange jumpsuit. Her natural good looks meant yesterday, three years on, it caught the attention of the sharing website Reddit and soon spread around the internet like wildfire, MailOnline reported.
Men fashioned memes adding captions to the mugshot such as 'GUILTY - of taking my breath away', 'Arrested for breaking and entering - YOUR HEART' and 'Tell me what she did so I can end up in the same jail'.
Social media sites were overtaken by comments from men wanting to marry her, looking for her phone number and asking if she is a model.
Even on the arrest site men have written of instant love for her mugshot.
Meagan Mccullough nee Simmons has had marriage proposals and declarations of love after her three-year-old mugshot picture went viral. Picture: Facebook
"The eyes of the sky. And hair like woven silk. I have taken photos of thousands of woman and never seen one with what you have in those eyes breath taking you are.
"I hope if you have a man he takes care of you and showers you with love and tenderness. If we were together you would need for nothing . I would go to the ends of the earth just to make you happy," a man posted.
Another asks her to move to Ireland.
"What's up with that surname, you must have Irish heritage? You got bar work experience?
"Come to Ireland, I'll put you up for a while and you can work in my friends pub while you find your feet, look up your family history and then move on to something better.
"Over here, we don't call you a criminal for driving drunk (unless repeatedly caught). I'm not joking by the way."
Meagan, now separated from her husband and going by her maiden name Simmons, is baffled by the sudden interest and bemused by the obsession with the mugshot picture she thinks "is terrible".
"I had just been crying when the photo was taken and I was drunk. I knew I'd caused a lot of trouble and my parents were really upset and I was really upset. I wasn't thinking about how I looked at all," she told Mail Online.
"I don't think it's that good a picture - there are other ones I would prefer."
Meagan said the interest was overwhelming and said had to block a lot of users.
She is single and dateless, although she says her two daughters and two sons, all of school age, are part of a package.
"Guys may find me attractive but they don't want a relationship and it's disappointing," she told Mail Online.
"I am single and I'm a hopeless romantic and I'm really picky. If it was just a nice normal guy who happened to come across the picture - but I'd have to do a background check because who would do that?'
"I think its weird, you can't be serious about someone if it's based off their mugshot and that mugshot is something I'm ashamed of - I'm not happy about it."
Meagan, who used to work at Hooters, is not unaware of her good looks.
"I never know what to wear to my kids school functions...dress like a mom or the sexy woman I am #hotmomproblems," she recently wrote on Twitter.
