Halima Aden just made history by gracing the pages of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue wearing a hijab and burkinil
Somali-American model Halima Aden just made history by gracing the pages of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue wearing a hijab and burkini. The Kenyan-born model said it was a "dream come true." Sports Illustrated announced the newest member of its "Swimsuit family" on Monday. The iconic magazine said for Aden's swimsuit spread, they chose the perfect place: her birth country. Her photoshoot was shot on Watamu Beach with photographer Yu Tsai. Aden opened up about how much the photoshoot meant to her in an interview with SI. "Growing up in the states, I never felt represented, because I could never flip through a magazine and see a girl who was wearing a hijab," she said. She spoke about living in a refugee camp in Kenya until the age of seven. She then moved to Minnesota, where she began making history at a young age as her town's first homecoming queen. She then went on to become her college's first Muslim-Somali student sena