Gigi Hadid is 20 years old and has made major runway debuts, is an official brand ambassador, has her face on numerous magazine covers and has even starred in multiple music videos. She’s had a quick rise to supermodel status, but all that has come with hard work and plenty of support from her gorgeous gal pals including Kendall Jenner and baby sis Bella Hadid.
Gigi humbly spoke of her new found status in the latest issue of Love Magazine revealing that her current life motto is to “work hard, be nice, make a friend” — not a bad one, and it seems to be working as Gigi was recently crowned Model of The Year.
Even thought she seems to be everyones major girl crush, she still has her critiques, including press who wrote off Gigi’s walk. But who better to have by your side than legendary Naomi Campbell; “I was with Naomi a couple of weeks before the VS show,” she explains. “She said, ‘Don’t apologise, don’t do it. You are perfect the way you are. Everyone said my walk was weird too.'”
“I go to her hotel and we end up practising walking in the hallway of the hotel. Italian families are coming out to watch and she’s like, ‘Don’t look at them, keep walking, they’re your audience.’ The elevator would open and the waiter would come out – ‘Don’t look at him, he’s your audience, do a spin and keep going.’ It was terrifying, walking in front of this Italian grandmother and her kid.
On top of the press, trolls aren’t foreign in Gigi’s life but she explains that support from her friends that also experience trolling is what keeps her going. “When people are really harsh? I live with my best friend from high school but usually I’m going to call Kendall because Kendall’s the one who will always be like, ‘You don’t need that, just let it go.’ And I know that if that’s working for her then it can work for me.”
“It’s not just us, it’s a lot of women in the entertainment industry that are really supporting each other and showing that it’s less cool to be mean than it is to be nice. I think that that’s a very unique thing to our generation.”
Via Nylon / Love Magazine
