Halima Aden makes history as first women to wear hijab and burkini in Sports Illustrated
Somali-American Halima Aden made history as the first female model to grace the pages of Sports Illustrated in a hijab and burkini.
"I keep thinking [back] to six-year-old me who, in this same country, was in a refugee camp," Aden told the magazine."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."
“I admire Halima, and I consider her an inspirational human for what she has decided to use her platform for and her work with Unicef as an ambassador,” Day added. “She is, in my opinion, one of the great beauties of our time, not only outside but inside. When we met, I was instantaneously taken by her intelligence, enthusiasm and authenticity.”
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