According to Science, Bella Hadid is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
Isabella Khair Hadid was born on October 9, 1996 in Washington, D.C. to Palestinian real-estate developer Mohamed Hadid and Dutch former model Yolanda Hadid (née van den Herik). Through her father, she claims descent from Daher Al Omer, Prince of Nazareth and Sheik of Galilee. She has an older sister, Gigi, and a younger brother, Anwar, both of whom are models. She also has two older paternal half-sisters; Marielle and Alana. She and her siblings were raised on a ranch in Santa Barbara, California. The family moved to Beverly Hills after ten years.
As a teenager, Hadid was an equestrian and dreamed of competing at the 2016 Summer Olympics, although she competed in equitation, which is not an Olympic discipline. She was diagnosed, along with her mother and brother, with Chronic Lyme disease in 2012. In 2014, after graduating from Malibu High School, Hadid moved to New York City to study photography at the Parsons School of Design. Before attending Parsons, she signed to IMG Models. She suspended her studies to focus on her modeling career, but has expressed an interest in returning to school once she’s done modeling to branch out into fashion photography. Hadid has also expressed an interest in acting.
Hadid began dating singer The Weeknd in early 2015. The couple were first seen together in April at Coachella.
Hadid starred in the music video for his single “In the Night” in December 2015. They made their red carpet debut as a couple at the 2016 Grammy Awards in February. In November 2016, the couple broke up because their schedules were too conflicting. They got back together in May 2018 and split once again in August 2019.
Hadid is currently in a relationship with art director Marc Kalman. They have been dating since early 2020.[169] Hadid confirmed their relationship on July 8, 2021, during her time at Paris Fashion Week and the Cannes Film Festival.
Not long ago, the most high-profile thing a supermodel could do with her mobile phone was throw it at an underling’s head. How times have changed. Now, the world’s most powerful models run empires from their handheld devices and are as unlikely to be caught in a public tantrum as they are to eat a box of doughnuts.
Bella Hadid is one such smartphone supermodel. Keen students of Hadidology will be aware that the 20-year-old has 14.2 million Instagram followers. They will also know her backstory. Hadid broke into fashion two years after her sister, fellow model Gigi Hadid, became globally successful. Before that, the sisters were peripheral characters on glossy reality TV show The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, in which their mother, Dutch-American model Yolanda Hadid, was a key player. Their father is millionaire real-estate developer Mohamed Hadid, who is originally from Palestine.
Much has been written about Bella being “cooler” than Gigi, a conclusion that is seemingly based on the visuals. Gigi is blond haired, blue eyed and smiley. Bella is brunette and looks more aloof, her face habitually arranged into a cheekbone-enhancing “fish gape”.
When we talk on the phone, she conveys a mix of Miss-World-contestant bubbliness and Thatcherite gusto.
Her speech is peppered with giggles and gracious expressions of “thank you”. Her parents, she says, “started from nothing and worked to give us the life that we have, and now I guess all we can try to do is repay them”. That shouldn’t be difficult now. It is a sign of how obsessed the fashion industry has become with the Hadids that Bella’s new Max Mara Accessories campaign sees her replace last season’s face, Gigi. That, says Bella, is “crazy. You know, I think about this every day: I feel so genuinely lucky to have the family I do”. And later: “My mom always said there’s prettier girls in the world, there’s harder working girls in the world … if you can’t be nice and work hard, somebody else will.”
The Hadids make headlines a lot, their love lives pored over by the tabloids (Bella recently broke up with Canadian singer Abel Tesfaye, AKA the Weeknd) while the broadsheets unpick the family’s heritage.
Gigi and her boyfriend Zayn Malik have been described, by this paper, as the US’s first Muslim pinup couple and a powerful force for good in the Trump era. The sisters were photographed attending the “No Ban No Wall” march in New York, after which Bella spoke about Islam for the first and – as far as I can find – only time, stating that she was “proud to be Muslim”. “My dad was a refugee when he first came to America,” she told Porter magazine. “So it’s actually very close to home for my sister and brother and me.”
At other times, however, the sisters have been criticised for not being Muslim enough. In April, Gigi was accused of cultural appropriation when she posed for Vogue Arabia in a hijab; her detractors argued that she only signalled her heritage when the prize was a magazine cover. In June, when Bella posted a topless Instagram picture, she received thousands of abusive comments about her religion.
Now, when I ask why she took part in the refugee-ban march, Hadid’s agent shuts down the conversation (“I think we are going to stay out of all that”). In an era in which protest is fashionable, when models with more niche online followings, such as Adwoa Aboah, use social media to promote feminism and activism, this is frustrating. Bella does talk about diversity in general, though, and about Halima Aden, who she says “changed fashion single-handedly” when she wore a hijab on the Max Mara catwalk in February. “It feels as though everything is finally coming together in the world of fashion; I feel like we are finally doing something for fashion that can make the world better.”
Bella wants to affect positive change, but she is still working out how. There is so much sadness in the world, she says, adding, in a slightly naive and jetlagged 20-year-old, supermodel kind of way, that she does not know where to start. “It’s just devastating: you see completely emaciated children and I’m supposed to go eat these incredible dinners when there are children who don’t even have water. Those are the things I want to help with.
According to a study by renowned cosmetic surgeon Julian De Silva, Bella Hadid holds the crown for the most beautiful woman in the world. De Silva compiled his list of top 10 women by using what is referred to as the Golden Ratio theory. This “divine proportion” was theorized in Ancient Greece, then used during the Renaissance by esteemed artists to create perfect works of art. Relishing in modern-day time, the cosmetic surgeon has made completely different use of the rule in order to reveal which women are mathematically close to physical perfection.
To calculate this golden number of beauty, De Silva based his list on a calculated measurement of the eyes’ size and position, eyebrows, nose, lips, chin, and jaw. Among all the data collected, Bella Hadid ranked highest with 94.35% of symmetry, making her the most beautiful woman in the world. While keeping in mind that beauty is celebrated in all forms of imperfection, De Silva’s list is taken in stride when considering cosmetic beauty’s societal standards. From Beyoncé to Katy Perry, check out the celebrities that made the top ten list below.