Gigi Hadid is a fashion model and catwalker who rose to fame for her role in the famous television series called The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Hadid has always been an active young woman, a very competitive horse rider and also captain of her school’s volleyball team. She eventually moved to New York to focus on her modeling career and her studies. Gigi Hadid was studying criminal psychology at The New School before putting her studies on hold to focus full-time on her modeling career.
Biography (Age, Ethnicity)
Jelena Noura Hadid was born in Los Angeles, California, United States on the 23rd of April 1995 to former model Yolanda Hadid and real estate developer Mohamed Hadid. She has two younger siblings, brother Anwar and sister Bella, who are also models. Gigi Hadid also has 2 older and paternal half-sisters Marielle and Alana. She actually has five half-sisters which she had thanks to her mother’s new marriage to music producer David Foster after her mother divorced Gigi’s father.
Our sources tell us that she started her modeling career at the age of two as a model for Guess clothes. She was discovered by Paul Marciano after which she became a baby model for the designer outfit. However, there was a pause as she would have to suspend this contract (job) in order to focus on her studies.
She is of mixed ethnicity with her mother being Dutch and her father being of Palestinian Arab descent. Reports state that her mother is a Christian and Gigi is a Christian however, her father is a devout Muslim.
Gigi Hadid’s modeling career
In 2011, Gigi Hadid returned to work as a model and she was nominated for a Guess campaign in 2012, she went on to feature in three campaigns for the designer outfit. Gigi officially signed a contract in 2013 with the agency IMG Models and she made her Top 50 Models debut on models.com in November 2014.
Gigi was also named International Model of the Year by the British Fashion Council in 2016. She has walked for famous designers in various campaigns and fashion weeks. She has participated in Mercedez Benz fashion week, London Fashion Week, Paris fashion week, among others. Gigi Hadid has also hosted many shows and programs. In 2015, she came into the public eye by appearing in the Pirelli calendar. She was named as the new face of Maybelline in 2015. A pretty impressive career for the young woman.
Gigi has appeared in several music videos including that of Taylor Swift, Cody Simpson, Miguel and Zayn Malik. She also has an active social network with a huge fan following her at every show and tour. His Twitter account has over 5.33 million followers. On Instagram, she is active with more than 35.1 million followers.
