Aimee Walker
Bella Hadid’s recent ‘Muslim culture’ comments have addressed the model’s childhood ‘regret’.
The 25-year-old model spoke to GQ about how she was ‘extracted’ from her Palestine dad and his side of the family when her parents divorced.
She told the publication: “I got extracted when we moved to California.
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“I would have loved to grow up and be with my dad every day and studying and really being able to practice, just in general being able to live in a Muslim culture, but I wasn’t given that.”
Hadid said that when living in Santa Babara, she’d face ‘racist name-calling,’ adding: “For so long I was missing that part of me, and it made me really, really sad and lonely.”
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The model is set to make her acting debut in the Hulu TV series, Ramy, which follows ‘a first-generation American Muslim who is on a spiritual journey in his politically divided New Jersey neighborhood’.
She told GQ that while filming the programme, she became emotional when the crew gave her a ‘Free Palestine’ T-shirt.
She recalled: “I couldn’t handle my emotions.
“Growing up and being Arab, it was the first time that I’d ever been with like-minded people. I was able to see myself.”
Earlier this year, the model revealed to Vogue magazine that she had a nose job at just 14 years old.
“I wish I had kept the nose of my ancestors. I think I would have grown into it,” she told the publication.
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At the time, Hadid’s mum, Yolanda Hadid, faced a ton of backlash over the confession.
One tweeted: “Everyone is like, ‘How did Yolanda let 14-year-old Bella have a nose job?’. Like, WHO do you think put the idea in her head that she wasn’t pretty enough in the first place?”
Another added: “The fact that Yolanda got Bella a nose job at 14 is so messed up.”
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