On Saturday, Bella Hadid shared a fun photo dump of what it looks like she’s been as much as this fall and winter. Amongst the miscellaneous selfies and pictures of food and street shots, there was shuffled in a photograph of baby Khai, her sister Gigi Hadid’s only child. Gigi shares Khai along with her ex, Zayn Malik, and infrequently shares pictures of her on social media — especially not her face.
Within the sweet photo, Khai is kneeling in front of the grizzly bear exhibit at what looks just like the Natural History Museum next to Recent York City’s Central Park. Beside her, Aunt Bella is crouching and pointing on the display. Khai is wearing tie-dye pants and a tan cardigan, and Bella is in a protracted khaki coat, sneakers, and a baseball cap. She has a material mask partially hanging off her face, revealing a smile as she talks to her niece.
This week, Bella did a photoshoot for Chaos magazine wearing a blonde look that was very Marilyn Monroe, with high pin curls styled by fashion legend Sam McKnight. The photographs were shot by photographer Nadia Lee Cohen and Bella is stunning.
Despite her flawless looks recently, Bella has been making an effort to share more of her internal life. She told Vogue of their April cover story this 12 months that individuals’s expectations of her don’t mesh with who she really is.
“Nearly all of the time after I meet people, they are saying, ‘I just didn’t think you were going to be nice, that you simply were going to be this mean, scary dragon lady, or some type of a sexbot,’” she explained. “That’s just not me, and if people have a greater understanding of who I’m, then I feel less alone inside myself.”
Aimée Lutkin is the weekend editor at ELLE.com. Her writing has appeared in Jezebel, Glamour, Marie Claire and more. Her first book, The Lonely Hunter, can be released by Dial Press in February 2022.
