Bella Hadid admitted that she is proud to be a Muslim. Yolanda Hadid: the difficult story of a strong woman's life Who gave Gigi the nickname Weegee

Today marks the 78th anniversary of Mohamed Hadid, a businessman known to the mass public primarily for his children. InStyle collected facts from the life of this outstanding and bright person.

Gigi, Mohamed and Bella Hadid

Hadid's father, Anwar, was a teacher, then began to collaborate with the Voice of America radio station. The family often changed their place of residence (Syria, Tunisia, Greece) and eventually moved to Washington. There, Hadid Sr. continued to work for Voice of America as a journalist, editor and translator. Mohammed was 14 when he moved to the States.

He was a participant in the reality shows The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and The Second Wives Club.

Last year, Hadid got into trouble - 23-year-old model Miranda Vee accused him of violence. According to Vee, the businessman invited her to a business breakfast and abused her.

Miranda Vee

Another problem with the law happened to Mohamed in the same year. The court sentenced him to 200 hours of community service and a fine (however, a modest one) for violations during the construction of a mansion in the Bel Air area.

Hadid is known as a real estate developer, but he hasn't always been into real estate. Mohamed's first business project was a nightclub he opened on the Greek island of Rhodes. He then proceeded to import British oldtimers (classic cars) to the US.

Hadid entered the real estate business through the construction of business centers in Washington. After 10 years, he moved to Aspen - built The Ritz-Carlton there, invested in several other high-profile projects and, in general, was very successful.

In the late 1980s, Hadid ran into business with Donald Trump and won. The fight took place in the same Aspen, where Trump wanted to buy the land and start his construction, but it was Mohammed who bypassed him. Despite lawsuits from Trump, that victory propelled Hadid into the #1 real estate industry.

At the beginning of the 2000s, Hadid settled in Los Angeles and became one of the leading real estate developers in Beverly Hills. His most expensive project is the Palazzo di Amore worth $195 million. Mohamed worked actively for celebrities: Michael Jackson spent his last years in the estate built by Hadid. However, not everything went smoothly. In 2012, Sylvester Stallone sued the developer, accusing him of fraud, breach of an oral contract, and negligence. Nevertheless, the lawsuit was settled, and today Hadid and Stallone get along quite well.

Hadid's first wife was Mary Butler. This marriage ended in 1992. The former spouses have two daughters - Mariel and Alana. Two years later, Mohammed married again - to Yolande van der Herick, who took his last name. The couple broke up in 2000. All of Hadid's kids are great at communicating.

Mariel, Mohamed, Alana, Gigi, Anwar and Bella Hadid

In 2014, Hadid met Shiva Safai in a restaurant in Los Angeles. Soon the couple began an affair, and in 2017 Hadid and Safay announced their engagement.

Shiva Safai and Mohamed Hadid

Shiva is 31 years younger than Mohamed, she is a journalist and model, has worked in television and also engaged in interior design. By the way, in terms of the number of followers on Instagram, Safay almost caught up with Hadid: 774,000 against 870,000.

In 1992, he actually participated in the Winter Olympics - he played for Jordan in speed skiing and was the only representative of this country. He did not achieve success, but the fact itself speaks volumes - especially at that time Hadid was already 43.

Mohamed is a certified pilot; regularly sits at the helm.

Mohamed is very friendly with his children. And he is not shy about showing his father's feelings. Last year, he responded to Gigi's 22nd birthday with seven posts on Instagram - with childhood and teenage photos of his daughter, the last post was a touching video with a pair of swans and a small chick. However, there are also more exotic emotions. Recently, on the same Instagram, Mohamed showed off a Birkin bag adorned with a drawing of another daughter's eye, Bella.

Real estate mogul Mohammed Hadid, the father of model Gigi Hadid, has been living in the grand estate in Bel Air, Los Angeles for several years. There is no doubt that Gigi Hadid also lived in it for some time. The level of luxury is off scale. Price for the house of Mohammed Hadid is also impressive - $ 85 million.

The house is so chic that it has its own name and music website, not to mention a grand ballroom and a 5,000-bottle wine cellar. Name of the estate Le Belvedere or in the original Le Belvedere. The estate was built by Mohammed Hadid, Gigi's father. In 2010, he sold the estate to a foreign buyer for $50 million, but the new owner never moved here. Mohammed Hadid has been living here ever since, renting it from the new owner.

Mohammed Hadid's house in Bel Air- This is an example of oriental luxury. It has 10 bedrooms, 15 bathrooms, a ballroom, an indoor pool and a banquet hall for 200-250 people. It also has a Moroccan hall, an elevator, a Turkish bath, a cinema, a swan pond and rose gardens. There is a separate security house on the territory, and several limousines can fit in the garage.

In the courtyard spa, several pools, including a 70-meter infinity pool, a kitchen with a pizza oven, a fireplace and a canopied dining room for banquets for 100 guests. Living space of this mega estate - almost 3,720 sq. m.

Photo | Mohammed Hadid's house in Bel Air

Today, when the name Hadid is on everyone's lips, few people will think about what efforts it once cost a young single woman to find her place in the fashion industry, and then through years of searching for love and harmony, having gone through trials and a serious illness, to make this surname common noun. I'm talking about a woman who not only managed to fulfill herself in life, but also managed to make her children the most sought-after models of our time. All this about the gorgeous Yolanda Hadid.

You may have heard this name before, because her two daughters, 20-year-old Bella and 22-year-old Gigi, constantly appear on the covers of the top fashion magazines and boldly defile at all kinds of shows, and not so long ago, both officially became "angels" Victoria's Secret . Needless to say, it was Yolanda who did everything to make the girls become real stars.

Yolanda Van der Herik (maiden name) was born on January 11, 1964 in the Netherlands. The blond girl has always attracted people's attention.- from a very early age it was obvious that Yolanda would drive men crazy with her beauty. But then no one even imagined that she would become a world-famous model.. She and her brother grew up in a fairly prosperous family, and it seemed to the girl that it would always be like this. Yolanda's happy childhood ended very early– when the girl was only 7 years old,her father died in a car accident. For many years after that, she will unsuccessfully look for a man who can become a stone wall for her, such as her father once was, but instead she herself will become strong and strong-willed.

A happy accident brought her into the fashion industry, and all the same happy accident made her famous. At the show of a Dutch designer (where, by the way, Yolanda also got completely unintentionally), she was noticed by the owner of one of the largest and most successful modeling agencies in the world, Ford Models, Eileen Ford. Young Yolanda signed her first contract with the agency and after that her life changed forever: she worked in the modeling business for more than 15 years, participating in advertising photo shoots and shows of the best fashion housesParis, Milan and New York.

At 31, Yolanda finds for the first time a man who can make her happy and make her quit her career for the sake of family happiness.– Palestinian-born businessman Mohamed Hadid courted persistently and beautifully. She regains a home and everything that she secretly dreamed of all these years. After the wedding, the couple moves to build a family nest in Los Angeles. In 1995, they have baby Gilena Noora (now known as Gigi Hadid), a year later- Bella, and in 1999, the long-awaited son Anwar, whose appearance was overshadowed by a serious birth injury. Yolanda needed a long recovery period so that she could move fully again. In those difficult days, she was often visited by thoughts that she would no longer be able to walk, but Yolanda did not know how to give up, and after some time the rehabilitation course began to give results.

Yolanda with kids: Bella, Gigi and Anwar

The upbringing of children, as well as their future career, fell entirely on the shoulders of Yolanda, but she was only" per ". This does not mean that Mohamed Hadid was a bad father, not at all, but the work absorbed almost all of his time. The lack of attention from her husband, which Yolanda so desperately needed, she fully compensated for with her children. However, their marriage to Mohamed eventually collapsed anyway, and in 2000 the couple officially divorced.

Yolanda, Bella and Mohamed Hadid

After the divorce, Yolanda decides to start a new life in a new place and moves to Montecito with her children. Here, thanks to the connections and acquaintances that appeared over the long years of working as a model and marriage to a multimillionaire, she was able to establish her own business. Yolanda becomes an interior designer and once again proves to fate that she is not so easy to break. A few years later, Yolanda falls in love again. - this time, her chosen one is the musician and producer David Foster, whom she will soon marry. Their marriage did not last long, only four years. After the divorce, Yolanda took back her first husband's surname. They were a family: her, Gigi, Bella and Anwar. That is why the woman decided that she should have a common surname with her children. In 2012, Yolanda was diagnosed with Lyme disease in a severe form, with which she fights even more fiercely than with all the troubles she has gone through in her life, because she has a goal - to put her children on their feet, teach them to be as strong as she is. , to convey her experience and knowledge, which were given to her so hard. Apparently, Yolanda fully managed to achieve her goal - her whole family is at the peak of popularity. But she is not going to stop there. At 51, Yolanda became the star of a popular reality show.« The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills» (a show about the influential society ladies of America). Of all the participants in the TV show, it is she who is the main favorite of the audience and seems to enjoy the attention of the public even more than in her youth.

Yolanda and her second husband David Foster

Yolanda with children: Gigi, Bella and Anwar

Gigi's eldest daughter tabloids are often compared to Yolanda in her youth

Now Yolanda is the mainth critic and adviser to Gigi, Bella and Anwar, who is taking his first steps in the modeling business. She is present at all the major shows in which her children participate, while not forgetting to develop herself.Yolanda's book "Believe Me: My Battle with the Invisible Disability of Lyme Disease" is scheduled to be released this year., in which she tells how she found the strength to overcome the disease and not lose her strength and faith in life. She dedicates the book to all women who have faced difficult trials along the way, and of course, to her beloved children, who have become the main meaning of her life.

Jelena Noora Hadid, known to the public under the diminutive name of Gigi Hadid, is an American model and music video actress. She is one of the girls of the famous Victoria's Secret lingerie brand and the face of several well-known companies. In 2016, the authoritative British Fashion Association declared the girl the best model in the world. In addition, the social network Instagram» Gigi Hadid called the sexiest fashion model.

Gigi Hadid was born on April 23, 1995 in the heart of California, in Los Angeles. The girl has Jordanian and Dutch roots. The girl's father was the construction magnate Mohammed Hadid, whose company owns some of the most expensive hotels in America. By nationality, the man is Jordanian, although he was born in Nazareth. Gigi's mother, Dutch Yolanda Van den Herick, was also a high-class model, and later became the star of the popular television series The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. In this family, the girl had a brother and sister.

Interestingly, all three, Anwar, and Gigi Hadid, followed in the footsteps of their mother and chose a career in the modeling business. When little Jelena was five years old, her parents divorced. Today, the former spouses maintain a good relationship. Mom remarried the famous music producer David Foster, who collaborated with such stars as, and won the Grammy Award 14 times.

At the end of 2015, Yolanda and David separated. Three years earlier, the woman was diagnosed with Lyme disease, which was severe. The husband warmly supported his wife, but in the end the relationship still cracked, and in 2017 the couple divorced. Yolanda again took the surname Hadid, under which the children remained. Today, the former model is coping with the disease and is engaged in social activities to combat this disease. In the same 2017, the woman’s book “Believe Me: My Battle with the Invisible Disability of Lyme Disease” was published.

Gigi Hadid went to high school in Malibu, where, in addition to studying, she devoted a lot of time to sports. The girl became the captain of the volleyball team and was a successful rider. After receiving a matriculation certificate, Hadid moved to New York, entered the local New School University, of which she is still a student. The girl is educated in the specialty "forensic psychology".

Modeling career

Gigi Hadid's career began when she was two years old. Already at that tender age, the girl advertised clothes from the Baby Guess collection. But when it was time to go to school, the parents insisted that their daughter concentrate on the lessons, and temporarily the profession of a fashion model was over. And at the age of 17, Gigi signed a contract with one of the best modeling agencies "IMG Models" and returned to business.

Gigi has been the face of Guess and Maybelline, Chanel and Max Mara, Tommy Hilfiger and others, and since December 2015 she made her debut at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. The girl also tried herself as a catwalk model at New York Fashion Week, Hadid's height allows it. Photos of Gigi Hadid were happy to print on the covers of glossy magazines Vogue, Elle, Cleo, Galore. The girl became a participant in a photo shoot for the advertising calendar of the Pirelli automobile brand.

Together with her, nine more prominent photo models from all over the world participated in the shooting. In addition, Hadid has repeatedly appeared in music videos as an actress. Known with the participation of a girl video for the song "How Deep Is Your Love" from the repertoire of Calvin Harris. The girl also collaborated with the Jonas Brothers group, Miguel, Cody Simpson and other artists.

Gigi Hadid in the video of Calvin Harris - "How Deep Is Your Love"

In March 2015, Gigi Hadid appeared in an advertising campaign for the Brazilian brand Rosa Cha. Together with her, Emily DiDonado and Lottie Moss were involved in the shooting.

In August 2016, it became known that Gigi Hadid would launch a clothing line with a fashion designer. The celebrity collaboration began in 2015. Then the Hadid sisters represented Tommy's clothes, although the director opposed the girls' candidacy. But Hilfiger "defended" the models. As a result, work on the catwalk with Gigi grew into a design field.

Personal life

The name Gigi Hadid has a large enough weight in society, so it is not surprising that many young people show attention to the girl. The girl briefly met with a British actor, an American singer and Patrick Uretz, who is not a public person. The fashion model has a longer relationship with Australian singer Cody Simpson: the couple dated for almost two years.

After breaking off relations with Cody, a British race car driver appeared in the life of Gigi Hadid, followed by the brother of one of the previous guys,. By the way, both of Gigi's boyfriends, Joe and Nick, sing in the same pop group, the Jonas Brothers. The last admirer of the recognized beauty was the former vocalist of the famous group. They started an affair in November 2015. Celebrities met at the birthday of the model.

It was rumored that Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik managed to run away, but the stars themselves did not comment on this information, so they continue to officially be considered a couple.

In 2016, the girl was at the center of a scandal. Then Jelena became the host of the American Music Awards ceremony. And there Gigi allowed herself to parody the future first lady of the United States.

In her speech, the girl demonstrated the Slavic accent of the president's wife and hinted at the woman's little education. Although the parody of Gigi Hadid was quite similar, the public was mostly outraged by such an act of a young model against a woman who was fit for her mother. How Melania Trump reacted to Gigi's behavior, the press failed to find out, but the girl made a public apology to that.

In the same year, information appeared that the musician made a marriage proposal to his beloved, but the girl refused the young man. Gigi is not yet ready for such a step and does not want to rush.

In 2017, the Network was filled with a wave of rumors that the model was pregnant by Zayn Malik. These speculations were facilitated by a comment from her mother under the photo of Hadid on Instagram. One site even quoted Yolanda: "I will be proud to become a grandmother in the next 8 months... Life is amazing". But later, the woman said that her daughter was not expecting a child, and if this were the case, then the former model would be the first to know about it. The fans of the couple decided that the rumor was either a hoax, or the comment turned out to be fake, or Gigi is really pregnant, but is still hiding it. In any case, the baby did not appear at the beloved.

In March 2018, it became known that Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik. The reason for the separation was the tight work schedules of both, which prevents the couple from developing a romance. The decision of the stars was mutual, the lovers parted as friends and support each other.

However, a month later, the paparazzi "caught" a couple kissing on the streets of New York. The "investigators" did not stop there and continued to follow the lovers. The next day, they captured Gigi entering their apartment. And after a while, Malik also arrived at his beloved. In June, the couple officially announced the resumption of their relationship.

Gigi Hadid with and without makeup

The life and career biography of Gigi Hadid is followed by millions of fans on the social network Instagram. Once a girl shared a photo without makeup on the microblog. Netizens noted that without a make-up, the model looks like a schoolgirl.

In 2015, after Gigi's appearance at the Victoria's Secret show, makeup artists noted that the public only looked at Hadid's stunning eyebrows. Experts are sure that behind such a dizzying bend is the future in the art of visage.

In addition, fans note the magnificent figure of their favorite (with a height of 178 cm, the girl's weight is 57 kg; Gigi Hadid's figure parameters: chest - 86 cm, waist - 64 cm, hips - 89 cm, leg size - 39, eye color - green-blue) and angelic appearance. However, the same experts are sure that Gigi's face was not without plastic surgery. According to the doctor, the surgeons worked with the forehead, face oval and lips of the model.

Gigi Hadid is a model who is strewn with moles from head to toe. Moreover, magazine editors do not leave these “flaws”, but overwrite them in Photoshop.

In an interview, Gigi's sister, Bella, shared that she was proud to be a Muslim. And Jelena once spoke about the religion of the family and noted that they were Catholics.

Bella once said that the public loves her sister for her appearance, but few people know how cheerful Gigi's character is. In addition, the girl is very sincere.

In 2017, experts traced the beauty evolution of Gigi Hadid's style. In adolescence, they noted the girl's chubby cheeks and unchanged long hair. Then more cosmetics appeared on the model's face: bright lipstick, false eyelashes, luminizer. In 2015, Gigi even experimented with a fake bob haircut. By the way, the publication that conducted research on the model's style noted that plastic intervention was unlikely to have taken place in the girl's appearance.

Interestingly, at such a young age, Gigi Hadid's earnings are $ 9.5 million. This is one and a half times more than the girl's sister, Bella, earns.

Gigi Hadid now

In March 2017, Victoria's Secret Angel graced the cover of the first issue of Arabic Vogue. The girl was glad for the honor and shared her overwhelming emotions on Instagram. The publication was released on sale from March 5 in English and Arabic.

In December, the model appeared in the advent calendar of Love magazine. And then she was at the center of the scandal. Fans of the star did not like the look of the armpits of a celebrity: you can see vegetation on them. There were also those who saw a body-positive message in the video. The girl herself did not comment.

In February 2018, Gigi Hadid admitted that she was suffering from Hashimsky's disease. This is a thyroid disease that affects the endocrine system and is difficult to treat.

About this disease the model itself in response to criticism. The girl said that she was tired of the attacks and reproaches that she had lost weight, suffered from anorexia and drug addiction. As a result, Gigi put an end to this issue in "

20-year-old Bella Hadid, who belongs to the top 10 most sought-after models of our time, once again pleased her fans with her appearance on the cover of a fashion magazine. This time she posed for the June issue of Porter, the heroine of which she became.

Bella is proud to be a Muslim

In her interview, which took place after a rather candid photo shoot, Hadid decided to talk about religion. The girl said that her father Mohamed Hadid is a Muslim, and she is very sensitive to this issue. Here are the words the model said to the interviewer:

“I was raised in a very religious family. My father came to America from Syria when he was only 14 years old. He tried to raise Gigi and me the way his parents raised him. Every day we prayed and I really liked it. I'm proud to be a Muslim."

After that, the youngest of the Hadid sisters decided to talk a little about Donald Trump's immigration policy. Here are the words of Bella:

“I don't like the way the president of our country treats emigrants. My dad himself was once a visitor, but this does not mean that it is bad. He began to live in America as a refugee. That is why the topic of migration policy, which prohibits the entry of residents of Muslim countries into the United States, is very close to me.”

“You know, by the nature of my work, I travel a lot around the planet. And now I can tell you with all responsibility that there are no good or bad people. All people are equal and deserve to be treated well, regardless of nationality. We need to be merciful and respect each other. It is very important. The world order must be built on this.”

Fans condemned Bella for her words and outfits

After this interview with Hadid appeared on the Internet, many Muslims condemned Bella. People are haunted by the fact that talking about Islam, a 20-year-old model can pose naked without any problems. In addition, many are confused by her revealing outfits in everyday life. Here are some reviews that could be read on the Internet: “Muslim women do not behave like this. They do not flaunt their naked body, even if it concerns work”, “What is she - a Muslim? Does she even know what it is? Muslim girls do not go in short skirts and without underwear”, “She has a strange idea of what the Muslim religion is. The structure of Bella's life can be attributed to anything, but not to Islam, ”etc.