Born : On the outskirts of San Francisco in Menlo Park, U.S.A.
Signed at age 17 with the Elite modeling agency of Los Angeles, Maran appeared on her first cover with Glamour magazine in 1998, and she was the featured Guess? Girl in their summer 1998 and fall 1998 campaigns.
Maran has appeared on magazine covers, Glamour and Teen, Shape, Seventeen, Stuff, Sport.
Josie has appeared in ads for Maybelline and American Eagle Outfitters.
She appeared in the Backstreet Boys video, "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)".
In June 2007, Josie Maran launched her own natural cosmetics product line, named Josie Maran Cosmetics.