A Comprehensive Guide to the Hadid Family: Gigi and Bella Hadid, Their Siblings and More
Gigi and Bella Hadid announced in May 2025 that they'd recently discovered they had a secret sister.
The supermodels confirmed their father, Mohamed Hadid, had a brief relationship with a woman named Terri Hatfield Dull following his split from their mother, Yolanda Hadid, in 2000. Dull later became pregnant, but her daughter Aydan Nix didn't realize Mohamed was her biological dad until she was 19 years old.
Mohamed is the father of six children in total, as he shares daughters Marielle and Alana with his first wife, Mary Butler, as well as two daughters, Gigi and Bella, and son Anwar with his second wife, Yolanda.
His daughter Gigi started a family of her own with the birth of daughter Khai in September 2020. The model later split from Khai's father, Zayn Malik, and is currently romantically linked to Hollywood icon Bradley Cooper.
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Born in Nazareth, Mohamed and his family fled to Lebanon during the Palestine War before settling down in Washington, D.C. in the early 1960s. Mohamed's early business ventures included selling classic cars and exporting equipment to the Middle East before he transitioned to real estate.
Mohamed became one of the most prominent builders in Bel Air and Beverly Hills. His mansion Le Belvedere sold for a staggering $50 million in 2010, while the 48,000-square-foot home he called The Crescent Palace netted $58 million.
He ran into legal trouble while trying to build a mansion on Strada Vecchia Road in Beverly Hills when it was opposed by the local Homeowners Alliance. The Los Angeles city council voted in 2015 to pursue criminal charges against Mohamed for violating zoning laws by not following planning orders in building the estate.
When the developer agreed to plead no contest, he was sentenced to 200 hours of community service as well as paying a fine of $3,000 and returning $14,000 to the city of Los Angeles. He also had to pay out $3 million in a 2018 civil lawsuit filed by neighbors.
A Los Angeles County Superior Court ordered the estate on Strada Vecchia Road to be demolished in 2022 because it posed 'legitimate risk of suffering damage and harm to [neighbors'] homes.' Mohamed eventually sold the land for $5 million.
He is currently in a relationship with author Keni Silva.
Mohamed's marriage to first wife Butler lasted around 12 years, and they share daughters Marielle, born 1980, and Alana, born 1985.
The mogul's spokesperson told The Washington Post in 1992 that his split from Butler was 'amicable,' yet the former couple went through a difficult final few years in their marriage.
The riverfront home where the Hadids lived in McLean, Virginia, reportedly went into foreclosure, forcing Butler and her two young children to move into a rented home in Potomac, Maryland, according to The Post.
Once called the 'Lead Hadid' by younger half-sister Gigi, Marielle lived outside of the spotlight as the founder of Living Well With Marielle. The company offers interior design and wardrobe consultation, party planning and seasonal decorating services.
Marielle is a mother of two: son Colton was born in 2014 and daughter Coco was born in 2012.
Fashion designer Alana has worked with numerous brands, including Lou & Grey and her own emoji-centric garment company, Current Moji.
Alana launched a podcast called 'The Seeds' in May 2025. She promised 'unfiltered convos, deep dives and chaos (the good kind)' with influencers and content creators.
Shortly after his 1992 split from Butler, Mohamed started dating Dutch supermodel Yolanda. The couple tied the knot in 1994 and welcomed three children — Gigi, born 1995, Bella, born 1996, and Anwar, born 1999 — before divorcing in 2000.
Yolanda started her career with the Ford modeling agency and walked runways in Paris, Milan and New York City before marrying Mohamed. Following her 2000 divorce, she joined the cast of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills for its third season in 2012.
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The Bravo reality show documented her marriage to 16-time Grammy winner David Foster — which lasted from 2011 to 2017 — and her longterm battle with chronic Lyme disease.
More recently, Yolanda has served as a judge on Holland's Next Top Model and guest judge on Project Runway. She announced her engagement to boyfriend Joseph Jingoli in August 2024.
Gigi started her modeling career at age 2 when she appeared in a Baby Guess campaign after being discovered by Guess cofounder Paul Marciano. She took a break from modeling as an adolescent to focus on school before returning to the runway in 2011. She quickly became one of the world's most famous supermodels as she walked runways for Versace, Chanel, Fendi, Marc Jacobs and dozens of other major brands.
Her love life has also generated significant interest worldwide. Having dated Australian singer Cody Simpson and Joe Jonas as a teenager, Gigi made the announcement in April 2020 that she was expecting her first child with boyfriend Zayn Malik. Their daughter Khai arrived in September.
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Gigi ended her relationship with Malik after he entered a no-contest plea to four counts of harassment against her mother, Yolanda. (Malik was sentenced to 360 days of probation and ordered to attend anger management counseling in October 2021.)
In May 2025, Gigi went Instagram official with boyfriend Bradley Cooper after dating for two years.
Bella followed in big sister Gigi's footsteps with her first modeling job for women's clothing brand Flynn Skye at age 16. She set a new record for appearing on the most Vogue September covers in one year in 2017 after gracing the front page of the magazine in China, Spain, Brazil, Australia and Arabia. She was chosen as Model of the Year by the British Fashion Council in 2022.
Bella was charged with driving under the influence in July 2014. She received six months of probation and had her driving license suspended for one year. The model announced in August 2023 that she was living a sober lifestyle.
During her four-year relationship with The Weeknd, Bella starred in the musician's 'In the Night' music video. The couple called it quits in August 2019.
Bella has been in a long-term relationship with professional equestrian Adan Banuelos since 2023.
Like his two older sisters, Anwar started modeling at a young age. He debuted for Moschino at age 17 in June 2016 and has since worked with Rihanna's Fenty x Puma line, Hugo Boss and Ralph Lauren. He was selected as the face of Valentino's signature fragrance Born in Roma in 2019.
Anwar dated heiress Nicola Peltz (who later married Brooklyn Beckham) and Kendall Jenner before embarking on a relationship with pop star Dua Lipa from June 2019 to December 2021. He was later linked to model Sophia Piccirilli.
Gigi and Bella announced in May 2025 that they'd discovered they have a half-sister named Aydan, born in 2002. The Hadid sisters confirmed that their father had a brief relationship with Terri Hatfield Dull after his divorce from Yolanda.
'[She 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,' the Hadids said in a statement.
Aydan only discovered her connection to the Hadid family when she 'decided to take a genetic test out of curiosity' at age 19. Gigi and Bella Hadid said that they'd 'embraced Aydan with open arms' ever since they first met in 2023.
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