{"id":665035,"date":"2025-12-31T16:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T16:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/665035\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T16:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T16:31:10","slug":"gigi-and-bella-hadids-secret-half-sister-aydan-nix-gives-rare-insight-into-their-sibling-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/665035\/","title":{"rendered":"Gigi and Bella Hadid&#8217;s secret half-sister, Aydan Nix, gives rare insight into their sibling bond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gigi and Bella Hadid\u2019s secret half-sister, Aydan Nix, said her siblings have been \u201cwarm and generous\u201d since she met them in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy sisters (along with the rest of the family) have been nothing but warm and generous. They have made space for me in ways they didn\u2019t have to,\u201d the fashion designer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/article\/aydan-nix-sister-bella-hadid-gigi-anwar-2025-essay.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote in a new essay for the Cut<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nix was born from a brief relationship her father, Mohamed Hadid, had over 20 years ago with\u00a0Terri Hatfield Dull.<\/p>\n<p>The real estate developer, 77, also shares Bella, 29, Gigi, 30, and son\u00a0Anwar, 26, with ex-wife Yolanda Hadid and daughters Marielle, 45, and\u00a0Alana, 40, with his first wife,\u00a0Mary Butler.<\/p>\n<p>Gigi and Bella Hadid\u2019s secret half-sister, Aydan Nix, said her siblings have been \u201cwarm and generous\u201d since she met them in 2023. toospoiled\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy sisters (along with the rest of the family) have been nothing but warm and generous,\u201d the fashion designer wrote in a new essay for the Cut. bellahadid\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>Nix, 23, said her half-brother, Anwar, \u201ccalled [her] his baby sister the first time we ever spoke on the phone,\u201d and that \u201cBella calls me her twin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mom couldn\u2019t even tell our voices apart when we first spoke to her on the phone,\u201d the aspiring influencer told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>Nix shared that her siblings have also helped her learn more about their Palestinian heritage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlana sent me resources and inspired me to <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2023\/10\/10\/gigi-hadid-denounces-the-terrorizing-of-innocent-people-after-hamas-attacks-on-israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">become active in the fight for Palestine\u2019s freedom<\/a>,\u201d she penned. <\/p>\n<p>Nix (not pictured) was born from a brief relationship her father, Mohamed Hadid (pictured far right), had with\u00a0Terri Hatfield Dull.  Getty Images for Victoria&#8217;s Secret<\/p>\n<p>The real estate developer also shares Bella (pictured far right), Gigi (pictured far left) and son\u00a0Anwar, 26, with ex-wife Yolanda Hadid and daughters Marielle, 45, and\u00a0Alana, 40, with his first wife,\u00a0Mary Butler. Dimitrios Kambouris<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWant more celebrity and pop culture news?\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with Page Six Daily.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI watched Anwar\u2019s film\u00a0\u2018Walled Off.\u2019 Gigi took me for my first Palestinian meal and taught me the names of different dishes,\u201d Nix added.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Nix\u2019s supermodel sisters have also helped her get her foot into the fashion world after she recently graduated from the Parsons School of Design in New York.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGigi introduced me to her friend Gabriella Karefa Johnson, whom I had admired not only for her styling but for her strong convictions and values,\u201d she wrote in the Cut essay. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI started assisting her when times were especially busy. My first day on set was a Victoria\u2019s Secret campaign. I worked 17 hours that day,\u201d Nix added. <\/p>\n<p>Nix shared that her siblings have also helped her learn more about their Palestinian heritage. toospoiled\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Nix\u2019s supermodel sisters have also helped her get her foot into the fashion world. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was exhausted, but I had never in my life felt more fulfilled. I felt like I had finally found the thing that I was supposed to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite her flourishing relationship with her siblings, Nix admitted to feeling \u201clike the odd one out\u201d due to not sharing her childhood with them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo sleepovers, no shared holidays, no borrowing clothes, no inside jokes, no stories woven together,\u201d she explained in her essay. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey had a lifetime of memories, and I felt like the odd one out,\u201d Nix wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Despite her flourishing relationship with her siblings, Nix admitted to feeling \u201clike the odd one out.\u201d toospoiled\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>In May, Gigi and Bella revealed they had a secret half-sister. bellahadid\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>In May, the identity of Gigi and Bella\u2019s secret half-sister was <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/05\/29\/celebrity-news\/gigi-and-bella-hadids-secret-half-sister-revealed-meet-aydan-nix\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revealed to be Nix<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver 20 years ago, our dad, while single, had a brief relationship that led to a pregnancy,\u201d Gigi and Bella\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-14759159\/bella-gigi-hadid-secret-sister-humble-beginnings.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told the Daily Mail<\/a>\u00a0in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAydan was born and raised in Florida, growing up with the man she lovingly knew as her father until his sudden passing when she was 19,\u201d the models added.<\/p>\n<p>Gigi and Bella said Nix \u201cdecided to take a genetic test out of curiosity,\u201d which led her to discover \u201ca biological connection\u201d to the cover girls.<\/p>\n<p>The trio \u201cfirst connected in late 2023\u2033 and Bella and Gigi \u201cembraced Aydan with open arms.\u201d Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Mohamed (pictured second from right) briefly dated Dull following his 2001 divorce from Yolanda (pictured far left). Getty Images for Tommy Hilfiger<\/p>\n<p>The trio \u201cfirst connected in late 2023\u2033 and Bella and Gigi \u201cembraced Aydan with open arms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mohamed briefly dated Dull following his 2001 divorce from Yolanda.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Mail reported that their fling ended shortly before Dull discovered she was pregnant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gigi and Bella Hadid\u2019s secret half-sister, Aydan Nix, said her siblings have been \u201cwarm and generous\u201d since she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[47073,4080,14932,4082,92242,77,51381,33928,202973,202974,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-665035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-bella-hadid","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-celebrity-families","11":"tag-celebrity-news","12":"tag-celebrity-siblings","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-gigi-hadid","15":"tag-models","16":"tag-mohamed-hadid","17":"tag-supermodel","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115815139736531897","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}