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 mostly just listen to my body.
I'd say probably the most epic experience was before the Victoria's Secret show - I think it was before the casting - and I saw Naomi Campbell at a party. I was saying that I was nervous about my walk and she said "Come to my hotel tomorrow and we're going to practice." So I went in New York and we practiced in the hallway of her hotel with all of the hotel staff watching. She just said "Don't even flinch. Keep going!" It was hilarious, but I think that was kind of a confidence booster.
I've met people and have mentors that have taught me and I'm still trying to get better today.
When I'm home in New York, I box every day.
There were a lot of times where I didn't get any shows and even until recently got a lot of kind of negative commentary from social media about my runway walk.
I started going to castings a few years ago when people didn't know who I was. People forget about [that time] because they've seen my career - the path that it's had in the last couple years.
So many women around the world in so many different career paths and places are expected to be perfect and I know that it sounds cliché, but none of us are.
Honestly my style sense, I guess, started in high school when I was a volleyball player. That was just what I wore: leggings every single day with my sports bra so I didn't have to change into it in the girls' gym locker room and that's kind of how it started.
I've always been more of the athlete in my family, but Bella [Hadid] is just good at - when she needs buckle down for like two weeks and be in [the gym] every day, she's really good at that.
My coaches are always my friends. I've always had a coach a year of my life and they're really important part of being a better human for me.
I feel like when I'm working and when it's not my time off, I like working out alone because it's kind of like that time that my mind gets to just shut off and I can just focus on working on being a better boxer.
I still love doing that. There's nothing like being able to go back and play volleyball again with a team cause, I can have my volleyball in my New York apartment but we can't do so much there .
I get to go back and ride my horses with all the people that I grew up with because that's really fun for me.
It's been something that has always been kind of okay with me - not in the sense that I didn't want to get better, but I always knew that I could get better.