Gigi Hadid claimed that because of her fair skin, she has had to deal with issues regarding her mixed-race status. Gigi Hadid discussed how people made her feel a struggled of her nationality because they thought she was too white to be of Arab descent.
Supermodel, actress, and mother Gigi Hadid is a member of Hollywood's A-list. Gigi frequently finds herself in the forefront of every other headline for one reason or another, whether it is her career endeavours, her personal life, or some controversy. Although the supermodel spoke about how she had been taught to feel too white for her Arab origins, her appearance is indisputably stunning.
The 26-year-old supermodel was brought up by her Dutch mother Yolanda Hadid and her Palestinian father Mohamed Hadid. Despite the fact that Hadid claimed to identify equally with both sides, she said that she had spent time "trying to figure out" where she belongs. She told the site, "In some circumstances, I feel—or I'm made to feel—that I'm too white to speak up for part of my Arab background.
Hadid remembered thinking to herself: "Is what I am, or what I have, enough to do what I feel is right? But then, also, is that taking advantage of the privilege of having the whiteness within me, right? Am I allowed to speak for this side of me, or is that speaking on something that I don't experience enough to know?"
They used to discuss this when Gigi Hadid and her ex-boyfriend Zayn Malik were dating and spending a lot of time together because Zayn has a mixed-race identity as well. His father is Pakistani, while his mother is English-Irish. She provided more details in that interview., “We think about it and talk about it a lot as partners and it’s something that’s really important to us, but it’s also something that we first experienced ourselves.”
Hadid said, “We are that first generation of those mixed races, and then that comes with that first generational experience of being like, ‘Oh damn, I’m the bridge!'”
In 2021, Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik had their daughter Khai. Gigi Hadid recently discussed how their daughter should self-identify. Even though Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik are no longer together and have already broken up, they still continue to co-parent their daughter because they both adore her. Currently, there are many rumours that Zayn is seeing Selena Gomez while Gigi has found love in Leonardo DiCaprio's arms!
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