![]() ![]() Her first appearance on the runway for Victoria's Secret's famed fashion show in December 2015 came on the heels of two failed auditions to be an Angel. By January 2015, Maybelline had also named her as their brand ambassador. In July 2014, she appeared alongside Patrick Schwarzenegger in Tom Ford’s Eyewear autumn/winter campaign, before going on to star in other various fashion and fragrance campaigns for the designer later that year. Hadid made her New York Fashion Week debut walking in Desigual’s runway show in February 2014, but she credits French fashion editor Carine Roitfeld for her big break when she put her on the cover of her spring 2014 CR Fashion Book. In addition to two older, paternal half-sisters (Marielle and Alana), Hadid also had five stepsisters during her mom's marriage to music producer David Foster, including Erin and Sara Foster, the stars of VH1's Barely Famous. It’s really nice when you have people who say, ‘It’s okay to take time for yourself.’” ![]() “Because a lot of the time I feel suffocated by my own work ethic and by the expectations I put on myself. “She’s so understanding of the demands of this job, and it’s really great that I can talk to her about it,” she told Harper's Bazaar. ![]() Gigi has credited Bella, who famously dated singer The Weeknd, as being a source of her strength. The Hadid sisters have both walked in the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, starred together in both Fendi and Moschino’s Spring/Summer 2017 campaigns, and, in 2017, became the first siblings to both be included on the Forbes World’s Highest Paid Models list. Like their big sister, both are also models. Hadid has two younger siblings, a sister named Bella, and a brother, Anwar. ![]() But having signed her first professional contract with IMG Models the same year, her modeling gigs interfered with her class schedule, and she eventually put her studies on hold. Upon graduation from high school, she relocated to the East Coast in the fall of 2013 to study criminal psychology at the New School in New York City. Wanting to "have a normal childhood and go to high school," she became captain of the varsity volleyball team at Malibu High School (where she graduated in 2013) and even went to Junior Olympic qualifiers for volleyball. (Her father is Palestinian-American real estate developer Mohamed Hadid.) She has said her modeling career began when she was "like, two years old" after she was discovered by Guess co-founder and family friend Paul Marciano.Īfter striking poses for Baby Guess, Guess Kids, and finally Guess, Hadid took a break from modeling in favor of competitive horseback biking and club volleyball play. Modeling was in her blood, though, as her mother, former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Yolanda Hadid, was a renowned Dutch model herself. Jelena Noura Hadid was born in Los Angeles on April 23, 1995, and raised in nearby Santa Barbara, where horseback riding became her first passion. She has continued her success with nonstop appearances on international fashion magazine covers and on the runways at every major fashion week. Hadid has gone on to work with brands ranging from Tom Ford and Versace to Reebok and Victoria's Secret. She focused on competitive horseback riding and playing volleyball at Malibu High School before turning her attention back to modeling at 17 years old. Born in 1995, Hadid is the daughter of model Yolanda Hadid, a former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star. Standing at a height of 5-feet-10-inches, Gigi Hadid first began modeling when she was two years old. ![]()
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