Gigi and Bella Hadid’s secret half-sister, Aydan Nix, said her siblings have been “warm and generous” since she met them in 2023.
“My sisters (along with the rest of the family) have been nothing but warm and generous. They have made space for me in ways they didn’t have to,” the fashion designer wrote in a new essay for the Cut.
Nix was born from a brief relationship her father, Mohamed Hadid, had over 20 years ago with Terri Hatfield Dull.
The real estate developer, 77, also shares Bella, 29, Gigi, 30, and son Anwar, 26, with ex-wife Yolanda Hadid and daughters Marielle, 45, and Alana, 40, with his first wife, Mary Butler.
Nix, 23, said her half-brother, Anwar, “called [her] his baby sister the first time we ever spoke on the phone,” and that “Bella calls me her twin.”
“My mom couldn’t even tell our voices apart when we first spoke to her on the phone,” the aspiring influencer told the outlet.
Nix shared that her siblings have also helped her learn more about their Palestinian heritage.
“Alana sent me resources and inspired me to become active in the fight for Palestine’s freedom,” she penned.
“I watched Anwar’s film ‘Walled Off.’ Gigi took me for my first Palestinian meal and taught me the names of different dishes,” Nix added.
Additionally, Nix’s supermodel sisters have also helped her get her foot into the fashion world after she recently graduated from the Parsons School of Design in New York.
“Gigi introduced me to her friend Gabriella Karefa Johnson, whom I had admired not only for her styling but for her strong convictions and values,” she wrote in the Cut essay.
“I started assisting her when times were especially busy. My first day on set was a Victoria’s Secret campaign. I worked 17 hours that day,” Nix added.
“I was exhausted, but I had never in my life felt more fulfilled. I felt like I had finally found the thing that I was supposed to do.”
Despite her flourishing relationship with her siblings, Nix admitted to feeling “like the odd one out” due to not sharing her childhood with them.
“No sleepovers, no shared holidays, no borrowing clothes, no inside jokes, no stories woven together,” she explained in her essay.
“They had a lifetime of memories, and I felt like the odd one out,” Nix wrote.
In May, the identity of Gigi and Bella’s secret half-sister was revealed to be Nix.
“Over 20 years ago, our dad, while single, had a brief relationship that led to a pregnancy,” Gigi and Bella told the Daily Mail in a statement.
“Aydan was born and raised in Florida, growing up with the man she lovingly knew as her father until his sudden passing when she was 19,” the models added.
Gigi and Bella said Nix “decided to take a genetic test out of curiosity,” which led her to discover “a biological connection” to the cover girls.
The trio “first connected in late 2023″ and Bella and Gigi “embraced Aydan with open arms.”
Mohamed briefly dated Dull following his 2001 divorce from Yolanda.
The Daily Mail reported that their fling ended shortly before Dull discovered she was pregnant.
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