Halima Aden becomes first Sports Illustrated swimsuit model to wear hijab and burkini.
“I keep thinking to 6-year-old me who, in this same country, was in a refugee camp,” she said during her shoot. “So to grow up to live the American dream, 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.”first contestant to wear a hijab and a burkini while competing in the Miss Minnesota USA pageant
, in which she was a semi-finalist. She was also the first Muslim-Somali student senator at her college, St. Cloud State University, in Minnesota. “We believe beauty knows no boundaries,” Sports Illustrated Swimsuit editor MJ Day said. “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."
The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition goes on sale May 8. Other models include Paulina Porizkova, Robin Holzken, Haley Kalil and Anne de Paula.
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