American Bella Hadid is one of the most recognizable top models of the present. She is not yet twenty-five, but she has already achieved quite a lot of achievements. She managed to become Victoria's Secret “angel”, the messenger of the Dior and Bvlgari brands, the face of the Swiss watch brand TAG Heuer, etc.
early years
Bella Hadid was born in 1996 in the family of an American millionaire, Palestinian by nationality Mohamed Hadid (his fortune in 2017 was estimated at $ 200 million). As for the mother, she is a native of South Holland, her name in girlhood is Yolanda van den Herik. In the past, by the way, she was also a model.
Bella has a brother, Anwar, Gigi's own older sister, as well as several other half-sisters from other father and mother marriages.
Interestingly, in adolescence, Bella was rather shy and complex about her appearance. In particular, the future model was worried because of its excess weight. Bella's main hobby at that time was horse riding. But when doctors discovered she had Lyme disease (this disease is usually infected after being bitten by a tick), she had to give up training.
Bella Hadid as a Model
In 2014, Bella moved to New York. It was here that her career as a model began.
The first major contract was offered to Belle by IMG Models in the same 2014.
In 2015, the novice model was awarded the prestigious Star Breakthrough award by Models.com. Moreover, the winner in this case was chosen not by a professional jury, but by readers of glossy resources.
After such a brilliant debut, Bella began to be invited to television shows and expensive music videos. Over the year, Hadid took part in four such videos.
2016 was even more productive for the model. This year, she was noted for her work at CHANEL events (along with her sister Gigi), and for becoming the face of such famous brands as Dior, Nike, Calvin Klein and Moschino.
Among other things, in 2016, Bella starred in the series of commercials “Makeup by Dior with Bella Hadid” and in the short video “Privat”.
The merits of Bella Hadid that year were appreciated by professionals. She won the Model of the Year category at the First Annual Fashoin Los Angeles Awards. And the portal Models.com included it in its Top 50 models of the world.
Another significant achievement of Bella during this period was the signing of a contract with Victoria's Secret, a company specializing in the manufacture of underwear. Then the girl took part in a number of stylish photo shoots for the company's catalog and became the so-called angel. This status allowed her to appear on the Paris show Victoria's Secret show with graceful wings behind her back.
In 2017, Bella Hadid became the envoy of the Italian fashion house Bvlgari and many times presented jewelry produced under this brand. She was also the face of perfumery water from Bvlgari "Goldea The Roman Night".
And Bella went down in the history of the glossy magazine Vogue as a model that appeared on a record number of covers for the month. She graced herself with eight September issues.
In the same 2017, Forbes magazine put Bella in ninth place in the ranking of the highest paid models. Her income for the year, according to the magazine, was equal to 6 million dollars.
In 2018 and in the first half of 2019, Bella Hadid starred a lot for glossy publications. One of her last striking works is a photo session in lingerie on the beach for the Spanish release of Vogue for June 2019.
In addition, she participated in almost all of the most prestigious fashion shows of recent times. For example, in February 2019, she could be seen on the catwalk as part of New York Fashion Week.
