Gigi Hadid
Hadid in 2014, photo by Prphotos.com
Birth Name: Jelena Noura Hadid
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States
Date of Birth: April 23, 1995
Ethnicity:
*Arab Palestinian (father)
*Dutch (mother)
Gigi Hadid is an American model and television personality.
Gigi’s father, Mohamed Hadid, who was born in Nazareth, Israel, is an Arab Palestinian. Gigi’s mother, television personality, model, and interior designer Yolanda Hadid (née Yolanda van den Herik), is Dutch, from Papendrecht. Her siblings are Bella Hadid and Anwar Hadid, who are both also models, with Bella also being an equestrian.
Gigi has a daughter with her former partner, British singer and songwriter Zayn Malik.
Gigi’s father is of the Muslim religion, and has said, “I wouldn’t call myself a ‘devout’ Muslim… but I’m very proud of my heritage.” However, Gigi’s sister Bella has said, “He [their father] was always religious, and he always prayed with us. I am proud to be a Muslim.”
A DNA test whose results Gigi displayed on her Twitter page stated that Gigi’s genetic ancestry is:
*69.2% European
——–*21.5% Italian
——–*16.7% French & German / Netherlands
——–*8.0% Broadly Southern European
——–*6.0% British & Irish
——–*6.0% Broadly Northwestern European
——–*5.9% Broadly European
——–*4.1% Spanish & Portuguese
——–*0.6% Greek & Balkan
——–*0.3% Ashkenazi Jewish
*26.9% Western Asian & North African
——–*15.3% Western Asian
——–*7.0% North African & Arabian
——–*4.6% Broadly Western Asian & North African
*3.5% Unassigned
*0.3% Sub-Saharan African
——–*0.1% Senegambian & Guinean
——–*0.1% Broadly West African
*0.1% East Asian & Native American
——–*0.1% Broadly East Asian & Native American
Gigi’s paternal grandfather was named Anwar Mohamed Hadid.
Gigi’s paternal grandmother was named Kharia Daher. Gigi’s father has said that he is descended from Zahir al-Umar, an autonomous Arab ruler of northern Palestine in the mid-18th century.
Gigi’s maternal grandfather was named Gerard van den Herik.
Gigi’s maternal grandmother is Johanna “Ans” Groenenberg (the daughter of Jacobus Johannes “Jan” Groenenberg and Maaike “Maai” van Gelder). Jacobus was the son of Jacobus Teunis Groenenberg and Johanna Knikman. Maaike the daughter of Adrianus van Gelder and Elizabeth den Ottelander. Ans is pictured here.
Hadid in 2014, photo by Prphotos.com
Source: Genealogy of Gigi Hadid – https://www.geni.com
No I don’t think they’re related. They just have the same name.
She’s not “white”….I had no idea there were so many racist and ignorant people on here. She’s half white half arabic, it’s like half white half chinese. If you search up the definitions of race and caucasian you’ll see she falls under mixed race and she won’t count as caucasian because her dad isn’t european.
Here’s how I see it, arabic people are regarded as minorities and people of color, therefore they can’t be regarded as “white”….
Since she’s half arabic that makes her half non-white while her other half is white. So she’s mixed, she’s not fully white or fully arabic. Exactly like kristin kreuk, zayn malik, obama etc. Just because she looks more like her mom it doesn’t erase her middle eastern ancestry.
On another note I know the census clumps middle eastern people with white europeans but from what I know they’re changing that soon so that right there shows middle easterners aren’t “white” since they’ll get categorized separately.
Have you seen her dad? He has light hair, blue eyes, light skin.Many Arabs look “very European”. I knew blonde and blue-eyed Arabs, she doesn’t look like that only because her mum but because her dad.Many Arabs are not at all ” people of color”.And American Census don’t define anyone, A census that in the beginning used hispanic as a race? A ethnicity called Asian But where people as Gigi hadid ‘s father is not? Because Chinese, Japanese, Koreans,etc are not the only Asians.What about Lebanese, Pakistani, Irak,Iran,etc?
Does she have some sort of relation to gigi gorgeous?
Wow she’s around 6 ft, she’s huge!
“Palestinian Arab” is a propagandistic term used by bigots to downplay the ethnic uniqueness of the Palestinian people by lumping them together with some undifferentiated mass of Arabs who can only be told apart from one another via their geographic location. It’d be just as moronic as referring to me as “Brazilian Latin American”, as if “Brazilian” were not enough to distinguish me from my continental neighbors.
The correct, neutral term for her is “Palestinian” only.