[1][2] Cowling was born and raised in Adelaide, South Australia.
[3] She made her runway modeling debut in 2016 at the Adelaide Fashion Festival.
[4] Later that year, at the age of nineteen, Cowling became the first Australian-born transgender model to sign with an agency.
[7] In 2017 Cowling became the face of TONI & GUY's new campaign You Define You.
[8] Cowling has spoken out about people in the fashion industry exploiting her and other transgender models because of their gender identity in order to make a brand seem progressive.