Gigi Hadid
Gigi Hadid
Jelena Noura "Gigi" Hadid is an American fashion model and television personality. She was named one of the 12 rookies in Sports Illustrated's annual swimsuit issue in 2014. She has also appeared on the reality TV series The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, in which her mother Yolanda Hadid has starred since season three in 2012...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionModel
Date of Birth23 April 1995
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
I'm really lucky to have a lot of friends in fashion. I don't know if that's common, but I just get along with a lot of people. My really close friends are Ireland Baldwin, Kendall Jenner, Lily Aldridge and Devon Windsor.
I'm always tan and blonde and don't really fit into New York. I'm a California girl, even if I try and cover it up with leather.
In third grade, I played basketball with the boys every day at lunch. I had braces that were yellow and purple, and I wore full Laker uniforms to school.
If you look at sculptures from hundreds of years ago, everyone's naked. It's not a bad thing.
As long as they want me modeling, I'll be here. But I hope to maybe have a cooking show one day or host a talk show when I'm older and have a developed brand. That would be really fun.
My mom was a model, so she's been really good about giving me tips on how to navigate behind the scenes - like the importance of being nice to everyone on set and remembering people's names, to how to be a positive part of the photo shoot and stuff like that.
I think that something photographers find about me is that I work really hard to make sure I know what they want before I start shooting.
I think that it's nice when someone can go and look more exotic and do the girl-next-door thing as well.
I'm a really big Juice Press fan. There is a store right around the corner from my apartment in New York.
I'm all for one month of going really hard and eating really healthy and boxing every day if you're doing it for, like, one job.
My thighs were huge; they were like rock! Growing up, I was really athletic, and I had a very athletic body.
Once you just tell yourself, 'OK, I'm going to have a breakdown right now, and I'm going to cry for an hour, put my phone away. I'm going to go swimming, and then I'm gonna make my family dinner and lay on the couch and watch 'Ru Paul's Drag Race,'' once you accept that it's not the day and you can just have a breakdown, you're over it.
I pay attention to how every makeup artist does everything.
A camel is a very awkward animal to ride, and it's very hard to get used to because they're not very graceful.