How Gigi Hadid Plans to Embrace her Mixed Heritage while Raising Daughter Khai.

Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik welcomed their daughter Khai in September 2020, and within less than a year the two already have a clear vision of how they want to raise her. 

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Gigi Hadid in a recent interview opened up about how Zayn and her plan on raising their daughter and making her aware of the different heritages that she comes from. Gigi, whose father is Palestinian and whose mother is Dutch talks about her heritage and how both Zayne and her parents have their own heritage making them the first generation of those mixed races. She talks about being the ‘bridge’ between those two different cultures and how they plan on raising their daughter Khai to be sensitive to her own diverse heritage. 

Gigi’s father is Mohamed Hadid and her mother is Yolanda Hadid. Zayne’s father is Yaser Malik who is British-Pakistani and his mother is Trisha Malik who is English. Because of this racial diversity, Gigi talks about how it is difficult to decide which race she actually belongs to. 

Credits: Gigi Hadid/Instagram 

Gigi says,  “You go through life trying to figure out where you fit in racially. Is what I am, or what I have, enough to do what I feel is right? But then, also, is that taking advantage of the privilege of having the whiteness within me, right? Am I allowed to speak for this side of me, or is that speaking on something that I don’t experience enough to know?”

Gigi continues by saying that Khai will probably grow up with her own interpretations of these things and feel the way that she wants to about being a bridge between these different ethnicities. She looks forward to having these conversations with her daughter without deliberately putting any ideas into her. 

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