And while the extent to which these two stars identify as Muslims remains uncertain, it’s also true that they haven’t shunned their histories either: at the start of Islam’s holy month of Ramadan recently, Gigi tweeted out a simple greeting, “Ramadan Mubarak,” to the world, while just this week, to mark its end, Zayn tweeted, “Love and peace on this beautiful day. See, Gigi’s ancestry is half-Dutch and half-Palestinian (owing to her Muslim dad, Mohamed Hadid), while Zayn’s mother is English and father is British-Pakistani. Republican party’s presumptive candidate for president, is stoking anxiety in that country about Muslims, there is, in Gigi and her singer boyfriend Zayn Malik, an actual US Weekly-worthy celebrity couple with the last names Hadid and Malik. Wild as this may be, it pales in comparison to Gigi’s greatest coup of all: at a time when Donald Trump, the U.S. Gigi's mother Yolanda Hadid posted on her Instagram page a photo of the three with. “A swift ascendancy” is how the fashion site frames the path of the girl with the enigmatic half-smile, a heart-shaped face that recalls a young Portia de Rossi, aquamarine eyes and hair that looks like she’s just jetted in from Tulum. Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik are celebrating one of the holiest Muslim holidays with their families. The model of the moment reportedly claimed. Last month, at the annual affair, she swooped into the city to “host” the thing, during which she made six impressive ensemble changes. Updated 14:32, Bookmark They might be madly in love but it seems that Gigi Hadid is a little confused about Zayn Malik s heritage. To wit, last year she was a mere “presenter” at the MMVAs here in Toronto. Now, with no less than 10 international Vogue covers under her belt in the last year alone - plus a just-released cover of American Vogue - and a fashion spoke that wheels between the commercial (Sports Illustrated, Victoria’s Secret) and the haute (Tom Ford has anointed her), the 21-year-old is also on the cusp of releasing her own capsule collection with Tommy Hilfiger called - what else? - Gigi by Tommy Hilfiger. The month of Ramadan, when Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset in remembrance of God, had coincided. Then she was known peripherally at best, as part of the Greek Chorus on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, courtesy of her mother, Yolanda Foster. I was fasting when I heard Zayn Malik and Gigi Hadid were expecting a child together. JZayn Malik may be a beloved pop star and one half of the infamous ZiGi, but his notoriety hasn't protected him from seeming Islamophobia. The winds of fame being what they are, Hadid - harnessed by hashtags, buoyed by a sparkly six degrees - has emerged as one of the planet’s biggest models. It was certainly before she was #Gigi, as she was matter-of-fact lauded on the cover of Elle Canada in the last year, and before she’d become, to my mind, an unwitting multiculti pioneer. It was before she was GIGI HADID, capital letters, italicized.
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