Background and career
Isabella Khair Hadid ( hə-DEED; born October 9, 1996) is an American fashion model. In 2022, she was named Model of the Year by the British Fashion Council. Throughout her career, Hadid has made at least 35 appearances on international Vogue covers. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world on its annual list in 2023.
Hadid began her modeling career aged 16. She was signed to IMG Models in August 2014, and made her New York Fashion Week debut the following month. In 2016, she was voted "Model of the Year" by industry professionals for Models.com. In 2017, Hadid broke Doutzen Kroes's record for the most Vogue September covers in one year by appearing in five international editions. As of 2023, Hadid was one of the world's highest paid models, earning $19 million.
Hadid was born on October 9, 1996, in Washington, D.C., and raised in Southern California. Her father, Mohamed Hadid, is a Palestinian-American real-estate developer, while her mother, Yolanda Hadid (née van den Herik), is a Dutch former model. Through her father, Hadid claims descent from Daher al-Umar, ruler of northern Palestine in the mid 18th-century. She has an older sister, Gigi Hadid, and a younger brother, both of whom are also models. She also has two older paternal half-sisters.
In May 2025, Hadid and her sister Gigi announced in a statement that they have a younger half-sister, through their father, who is named Aydan Nix, whom they contacted in late 2023. Nix was welcomed by her mother, Terri Hatfield Dull, after a brief relationship with Mohamed that came after his divorce from Yolanda. Hadid and her siblings were raised on a ranch in Santa Barbara, California. The family moved to Beverly Hills after ten years. Hadid's childhood home was destroyed in January 2025 due to the series of wildfires in Southern California.
As a teenager, Hadid was an equestrian in the discipline of equitation, and dreamed of competing at the 2016 Summer Olympics, but equitation is not an Olympic discipline.
How Bella Hadid makes money
As of 2023, Hadid was one of the world's highest paid models, earning $19 million. Amid the ensuing Gaza War, Hadid and her sister Gigi donated $1 million to Palestinian aid agencies, with Hadid also participating in Gaza war protests and calling Israel's actions genocide.
