Bella Hadid reveled she was subjected to racist bullying and name calling in school while growing up in California away from her Palestinian family in Washington DC.

In a new interview with GQ Magazine, supermodel talked about how disconnected she felt living in California and away from her Palestinian roots after her parents got divorced. Sister of Gigi Hadid, daughter of Palestinian real estate developer Mohamed Hadid and Dutch model Yolanda Hadid, moved to California at a very young age with her family. “I was with my Palestinian side of family in D.C.,” Bella told outlet. “And I got extracted when we moved to California.”

“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,” she shared. Supermodel-turned-actor went on to reveal that she often faced racist bullying at school for being only Arab girl in her class. While growing up in Santa Barbara, she faced “racist name-calling,” Bella disclosed while adding that she was “never able to see myself in anything.” “For so long I was missing that part of me and it made me really, really sad and lonely,” she shared with the publication.

Published in The Daily National Courier, August, 20 2022

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