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Somali-American Model Halima Aden Becomes First Model To Wear Hijab and Burkini In Sports Illustrated

by Sammy,

The 21 Years Old, Halima Aden Becomes First Model To Wear Hijab and Burkini In Sports Illustrated.

  • Halima Aden is the first Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model to wear hijab, burkini.
  • The magazine shared the news of their history-changing model through the Twitter account.
  • She has worked with several popular magazines since her debut and also walked ramps for major designers.

Somali-American model Halima Aden has become the first Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model to wear hijab, burkini. According to the Sports Illustrated, the swimsuit is set to release on May 8.

The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit magazine officiated about their history-changing through their official Twitter account on Monday.

Halima Aden makes history as the first model to wear a hijab and burkini for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit: https://t.co/8WFD4hHmiH. pic.twitter.com/OsBthnjoLY

— Sports Illustrated Swimsuit (@SI_Swimsuit) 29 April 2019

The Muslim model also has shared some image of her photoshoot which was done in Kenya.

The 21 years old model was born in Kenya at Kakuma Refugee Camp until shifting to the US at the age of seven years old.

While giving an interview with Sports Illustrated, Halima Aden said,

I keep thinking [back] to six-year-old me who, in this same country, was in a refugee camp, So to grow up to live the American dream [and] to come back to Kenya and shoot for SI in the most beautiful parts of Kenya—I don’t think that’s a story that anybody could make up.

Before this, the magazine has worked with plus-sized models and a female MMA-fighters. And the new shift marks a big move for the magazine, as they mostly used to feature seducing models posing in skimpy bikinis.

This is not the first time Halima made the headline as she also became the first contestant to wear a hijab and a burkini at the Miss Minnesota USA contest of 2016. 

She has worked with several popular magazines since her debut and also walked ramps for major designers.