The Hadids
First off, I want to say that I admire Bella Hadid for her activism. However, I feel like this sometimes makes us overlook some of the sketchy things the Hadid family has done. We all know Yolanda has her issues, and while I don’t judge her for what she did as a kid (though, for the record, I never said racist things or got a DUI as a teenager), I’ll let that slide since she was under 18. But they still do problematic things that no one seems to call out:
Pushing the wellness BS. No one needs to take dozens of wellness pills every day—they can do more harm than good. Promoting this kind of stuff and pushing pseudoscience onto a young, impressionable audience is harmful.
She claimed she went to a ‘wellness treatment center’ for Chronic Lyme Disease, which isn’t a real condition. She also posted misleading things like lab reports that didn’t actually show anything and can’t diagnose Lyme Disease. For example, she posted herself getting an EKG, which is a routine procedure, but made it seem like it was a very invasive test only for seriously ill people. (It could have been rehab, and I wouldn’t judge her for that, but why post pictures and tell the world? And why include photos of herself crying in her photo dumps?) She’s pushing this narrative onto impressionable young people, and in a way, she’s glamorizing chronic illness. With all the people she’s around, how has no one told her Chronic Lymes Disease is fake?
She posted about getting a nose job at 14 and regretting it. I get that, but it’s obvious she’s still getting work done. Owning up to one thing while denying everything else is strange.
I don’t have much to say about Gigi, except that calling the paparazzi to follow you and your baby and then pretending they’re being invasive is weird. Also, it seems like she really tries to attach herself to Taylor, like when she publicly told everyone that she was the one who made the customized bracelet for Taylor with the ‘87’ and one of her cats. It also feels like she goes out of her way to be around Taylor when she’s with her boyfriends. Gigi is the only one of Taylor’s friends who’s been seen or interacted with both Joe and Travis, almost as if she’s trying to insert herself. None of Taylor’s other friends have done that. And now, it feels like Gigi is trying to make her relationship with Bradley Cooper highly visible. I’m not sure if it’s PR, but it definitely seems calculated.
Mohamed Hadid has a history of bankruptcies, was once one of the biggest tax evaders in California, and made racist and homophobic slurs toward a congressman. He’s also been accused of rape, cheated on his fiancée with a Polish model who was his children’s age, and even tried to get a lawsuit thrown out for not paying a driver, arguing in court that he shouldn’t have to pay because the driver was in the U.S. illegally.