Jelena Noura "Gigi"Hadid (/ˈdʒiːdʒihəˈdiːd/JEE-jee hə-DEED; born April 23, 1995) is an American fashion model and television personality. In 2016, she was named International Model of the Year by theBritish Fashion Council.[4] Throughout her career, Hadid has made at least 50 appearances in internationalVogue.[5] Models.com ranks her as one of the "New Supers".[6] Since 2017, Hadid has been one of thehighest-paid models in the world, earning $20 million.[7][8]
Born in Los Angeles, she began her career as a child model for Baby Guess. She signed toIMG Models in 2013 and made herNew York Fashion Week debut the next year. Hadid has appeared in numeroushigh fashion campaigns and editorials, and is a spokesmodel forMaybelline.
Early life
Jelena Noura Hadid was born on April 23, 1995,[9] inLos Angeles, California, toPalestinian–American real-estate developerMohamed Hadid andDutch former modelYolanda Hadid (née van den Herik).[10][11] Through her father, she claims descent fromDaher al-Umar, Prince ofNazareth andSheik ofGalilee.[12][13] Her younger sister,Bella, and younger brother, Anwar, are also models.[14] Additionally, she has two older paternal half-sisters, Marielle and Alana.[9][15] In May 2025, Hadid and her sister Bella announced in a statement that they have a younger half sister through their father named Aydan Nix. They shared that they connected with Nix in late 2023. Nix was welcomed by her mother, Terri Hatfield Dull, after a brief relationship with Mohamed that came after his divorce from Yolanda.[16] She and her siblings were raised on a ranch inSanta Barbara.[17] The family moved toBeverly Hills after ten years.[18] Hadid has stated that "Gigi" was a childhood nickname that was also used by her mother while growing up in the Netherlands. She began using it in school to avoid confusion with a girl in her class named "Helena".[19]
Hadid's modeling career began when she was two years old,[23] afterGuess co-founderPaul Marciano discovered her. She appeared in Baby Guess ads before stopping to concentrate on school. She returned to modeling in 2011[24] and then resumed working with Marciano, becoming the face of a 2012 Guess campaign. As an adult, she has shot three campaigns with Guess.[21][25]
2013–2016: Breakthrough
After signing toIMG Models in 2013, Hadid made herNew York Fashion Week debut in February 2014, walking forDesigual.[26][27] In the same month, she made ahigh fashion break, appearing on the cover ofCarine Roitfeld'sCR Fashion Book.[28] On July 15, 2014, she starred alongside actor and modelPatrick Schwarzenegger in designerTom Ford's Eyewear autumn/winter campaign.[29] She co-hosted theDaily Front Row's Fashion Media Awards event held in New York City on September 5, 2014.[30] She has also starred in campaigns forTom Ford F/W 2014, Tom Ford Velvet Orchard Fragrance and Tom Ford Beauty 2014.[31][32] She was featured on the cover ofGalore magazine in 2014.[33][34][35]
Hadid started off the Spring/Summer campaign season starring in Fendi andMoschino campaigns.[64] She also was the face of the S/S 2017 campaign forMax Mara accessories, Stuart Weitzman[65] andDSQUARED2.[66] The second Tommy Hilfiger and Hadid ready-to-wear collection was presented in February 2017 for the Spring season.[67] She was the photographer of theVersus (Versace) Spring/Summer 2017 campaign which featured her then-boyfriend, singerZayn Malik, and modelAdwoa Aboah.[68] She also photographed a special summer edition ofV Magazine titledGigi's Journal, which featuredPolaroids of fashion industry colleagues, celebrities and close friends.[69]
She was featured on four March 2017Vogue covers: American, British, Chinese, and the inaugural edition ofVogue Arabia.[70][71][72][73] She also appeared on the covers forCR Fashion Book (Spring/Summer 2017),Jolie (April 2017) andThe Daily (Spring 2017).[74][75][76] She featured on the May 2017 covers for the Dutch editions ofVogue,Cosmopolitan andGlamour as well as the June/July 2017 cover ofAmerican Harper's Bazaar.[77][78] She has starred in editorials forAmerican Vogue (April 2017) andLOVE Magazine (Spring/Summer 2017).
She scored her secondAmerican Vogue cover in August 2017, sharing it with her then-boyfriend, Zayn Malik.[79] The third Tommy Hilfiger and Hadid collection was presented in September 2017.[80] During Fall/Winter 2017 Fashion Month in New York, Milan and Paris, she opened the shows forJeremy Scott, Anna Sui, Versus (Versace),Alberta Ferretti,Missoni,H&M andBalmain; and closed the shows forIsabel Marant, Moschino, Max Mara and Anna Sui. She also released the first season of two new collaborations with Vogue Eyewear and Messika Jewelry.[77] At theDaily Front Row's third annual Fashion Los Angeles Awards, she was honored for the Best Design Debut for her collection with Tommy Hilfiger.[81] She ended 2017 by being named one ofGlamour's Women of the Year, alongsideNicole Kidman,Solange Knowles,Muzoon Almellehan and others.[82]
She started 2018 with multiple high fashion campaigns, includingValentino, Moschino, Versace and Fendi. She also went on to release her second collaboration with both Vogue Eyewear and Messika Jewelry.[83] In February, during fashion week, she presented the fourth and last season of her capsule collection with Tommy Hilfiger in Milan.[84][85]
She appeared on many different international Vogue covers in 2018, includingBritish Vogue in March,[86]Vogue Italia in May andVogue Brazil in September.[87] She also scored multiple American covers, including theHarper's Bazaar May issue,[88]V Magazine's Fall Preview Cover V114,[89] andW Magazine. She also coveredLOVE Magazine's 10th Anniversary edition,[90]Chaos 69, andChaos True Originals – Disney Special.
In November 2018, she announced her first collaboration with Reebok designing sneakers for the brand, starting with limited release on December 7 and the full collection to be released later in February 2019.[91] She also returned to theVictoria's Secret Fashion Show for the third time in the same month.[92] In early 2019, she appeared on more international Vogue covers, includingVogue Czechoslovakia,Vogue Arabia, andVogue Hong Kong.[83]
In August 2022, Hadid revealed that she would be launching her first solo clothing line, Guest in Residence. Serving as founder and creative director the brand was launched in September that year.[95][96][97] In 2023, Hadid andTan France co-hosted the reality fashion competitionNext In Fashion.[98] The show was released throughNetflix on March 3, 2023.[99] French luxury fashion houseRabanne announced Hadid as the face of its new fragrance,Million Gold For Her in August 2024.[100] In March 2025, Brazilian footwear brand "Havaianas" announced their partnership with Hadid as its new global ambassador. Their collaboration was released in May 2025.[101] In the same month, Hadid announced her clothing line Guest in Residence collaboration with Los Angeles-based brand "Madhappy" on a limited collection of women's apparel.[102]
Hadid is a long-time supporter ofPalestine and the Free Palestine movement.[103][104] Bella Hadid and Gigi Hadid have donated $1 million to Palestinian relief agencies.[105]
In January 2016, Hadid participated inMasterChef and raised $25,000 for Global Lyme Alliance.[106] In October 2016, she joined other celebrities in supporting theBBC'sChildren in Need's T-shirt philanthropy project. The shirt, designed byGiles Deacon, sold for $15 with 70% of all the proceeds going to the charity.[107]
Hadid announced in May 2018 that she would be working closely withUNICEF to help children around the world. On August 25, she went on her first mission with UNICEF to visit their programing in Bangladesh. The trip fell on the eve of the first anniversary of theRohingya refugee crisis.[109]
On May 3, 2020, Hadid and other celebrities joined forces to play a virtual charity tennis match onFacebook Gaming. Organized by IMG Tennis, the participants all received $25,000 to donate to a charity of their choice. The winners received an additional $1 million to donate. Hadid played for the non-profit organizationFeeding America.[110] In June 2020, Hadid auctioned off some of her clothes as part of a charity auction organized byBritish Vogue that benefittedNHS Charities Together and theNAACP.[111]
Hadid has shown support for theBlack Lives Matter movement. A percentage of the sales from her quarantine editorial withV Magazine,Gigi's Journal Part II, were donated to four organizations; theBlack Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, the NAACP, theACLU, andCampaign Zero. The organizations also received personal donations from Hadid.[112]
In 2022, Hadid pledged to donate her earnings from the Fall 2022 shows to help Ukrainian victims of theRussian invasion and Palestinians.Vogue magazine reported Hadid's donations to Ukraine but omitted Palestine, for which it received criticism.[113][114][115]
Ukrainian self-styled pranksterVitalii Sediuk lifted her off the ground from behind in 2016 under the pretense of a prank,[119][120] and she was commended on how she defended herself from him.[121][122]
On November 7, 2022, Hadid deleted herTwitter account, saying on Instagram, "For a long time, but especially with its new leadership, it's becoming more and more of a cesspool of hate & bigotry, and it's not a place I want to be a part of."[123]
Relationships
Hadid was in anon-again, off-again relationship with Australian singerCody Simpson. The pair first met in 2013 when she appeared in his music video for "Surfboard". They began dating later that year before their breakup in 2014. They reunited a few months later before splitting for a second time in May 2015.[124][125] She appeared in Simpson's music video for "Flower" in February 2015.[126]
Hadid was in a relationship with American singerJoe Jonas from June to October 2015. She co-directed Jonas' bandDNCE's music video for "Cake by the Ocean".[127][128]
She began dating English singerZayn Malik in late 2015; they broke up and reconciled multiple times.[129][130][131][132] She appeared in Malik's music video for "Pillowtalk". They starred on the August 2017 cover ofAmerican Vogue,[79] making them the third couple to appear together on aVogue cover. It courted controversy because ofVogue misnaming them as gender fluid, for whichVogue apologized.[133] They also did a Versus (Versace) campaign as a couple, with Hadid as the photographer.[134][135] In April 2020, she confirmed that she and Malik were expecting their first child during an interview onThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, after rumors began to circulate of her pregnancy.[136][137] Their daughter was born in September 2020.[138] The family spent a majority of their time on a farm in ruralNew Hope, Pennsylvania, where Hadid's mother and younger sister,Bella, also own land.[139][140]
In October 2021, Malik entered ano-contest plea to four charges of harassment against Hadid's mother,Yolanda. He was sentenced by a Pennsylvania court to 360 days of probation as well as counseling for anger management and domestic violence.[141] Hadid and Malik reportedly ended their relationship after the incident. They both co–parent their daughter.[142]
In late January 2019, Hadid was sued by the independent photo agency business Xclusive for sharing an October 2018 photo of herself without the photographer's permission.[144] In 2017, photographer Peter Cepeda took a photo of her, which she later posted on Instagram. He filed a lawsuit against her the following September and it was later settled outside of court.[144]
On July 10, 2023, Hadid was arrested in theCayman Islands under charges of importation of drugs and drug paraphernalia aftercustoms andborder control discovered a small amount of marijuana, along with "smoking utensils", to be among her belongings when she touched down at theOwen Roberts International Airport.[145] Although determined that the possession of the marijuana was for personal use only, Hadid was nonetheless charged with importation-related crimes. She was later processed, fined $1,000, and released.[146]
In 2017, Hadid attempted to travel toShanghai to participate in the2017 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show but ultimately could not, as her Chinesevisa was reportedly revoked after an online video showing her doing a slant-eyes gesture in imitation ofBuddha was criticized as racist by Chinese internet users.[147][148]
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^Elizabeth, Joanna (May 26, 2025)."Gigi Hadid's Guest in Residence & Madhappy Make Knits Cool".Fashion Gone Rogue. RetrievedJune 12, 2025.Each piece combines classic Guest in Residence shapes with Madhappy's signature vintage wash and hand-stitch details.
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