Ariel Meredith is an American model who appeared in the 2009 and 2012 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issues. Born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1986, she did some part-time modeling starting in 1998 until she finished her schooling. She signed with Ford Models in New York, and Elite Model Management in Milan and Paris in 2008.

A native of Shreveport, Louisiana, she was senior class parliamentarian and a senior senator on the student council of her 2001–2002 class at Huntington High School. After high school graduation, she moved to New York City. Meredith's mother's name is Marjorie Meredith and her father's name is David Meredith.

Although she was discovered at age 14 she did not pursue modeling as a full-time career until after she completed her education in 2008. In 1998, she won a 500-contestant modeling competition in Dallas and signed with Ford Models in New York and Campbell Modeling Agency in Dallas. She got 32 call-backs from the contest. As a teenager she appeared in Seventeen, Teen Cosmopolitan, Cosmopolitan, and Teen magazines. She began traveling domestically while still in school. In 2002, she appeared on the MTV show Fashionably Loud. She started modeling regularly in 2005. When one of her early modeling agencies demanded that she have breast reduction surgery, she refused and was dropped from the agency.