Halima Aden, a 21-year-old Somali American model who grew up in Minnesota, has a history of breaking boundaries.
“I wanted people to see that you could still be really cute and modest at the same time,” said Halima Aden, shown here at an event in Los Angeles. April 29, 2019 As recently as two years ago, Aden was still wearing braces and cleaning hospital toilets, and her stratospheric rise was in no way predictable. Before Somalia was ruptured by civil war in the 1990s, her family lived in a small town outside the city of Kismayo, where they raised camels, goats and sheep.
In September 2016, a Somali man went on a stabbing rampage at a St. Cloud mall, injuring 10 people before he was fatally shot by an off-duty police officer. Then a freshman at St. Cloud State University, Aden attended a unity rally on campus that was intended to highlight the city’s commitment to diversity amid a period of racial tension. Standing next to her was a white woman whose curious baby kept trying to grab her hijab.
— Liz Sawyer November 27, 2016 Her mother had initially been skeptical, telling the paper that Aden’s modest burkini was too revealing and she would rather see her daughter focus on school. Eventually, though, she came around and agreed to attend the pageant. The criticism demonstrated how women are held to an impossible standard, she added. “I’m covered up, but I’m still getting these comments that say I shouldn’t be. But the girls who wear the bikinis, they’re being told they’re too revealing! Enough. It’s their body, their choice.”
“I never really felt represented because I never could flip through a magazine and see a girl who was wearing a hijab.” #ShatteringPerceptions pic.twitter.com/EtNfpszcmy
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