You have an eye for an attractive pose and a composition that works very well for the scene.
Shooting into the sun is very difficult, and while you managed to save a lot of detail in the subject the cost was an overexposure of the sky which robbed a lot of detail out of that flowing piece of cloth she is holding.
If you have(or can buy or make) a reflector, this is the perfect sort of shot to use it on. You can reduce your exposure a bit and save the sky and the details in the cloth by having the reflector bounce some of that light back up into the model's face.
I also think the Gaussian Blur is a little on the heavy side here, but that could be an artistic decision on your part so run with it.