Halima Aden recalled of her abrupt announcement in 2020 that she was leaving the fashion industry for good. At the time, the UNICEF ambassador explained her decision via an Instagram story, noting: 'Looking back now I did what I said I would never do.
Which is compromise who I am in order to fit in. Just remember they call it a "hijab journey" for a reason and it is never too late to reinstate your boundaries. 'Now, aged 24-year-old, Aden is using her platform on her own terms. ‘You’ll never catch me on a catwalk ever again,' she recently told ELLE UK during the One Young World summit, the annual leadership event, attended by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, for which the former model served as a counsellor. 'I’m not even going to enter those [modelling] spaces. . .
I’m done with traditional modelling,' she continued. A post shared by Halima (@halima)Born in a refugee camp in Kakuma, Kenya after her mother fled Somalia, Aden arrived in the US when she was seven years old.
She was part of a rare minority of Somalians who were able to relocate to another country at the time while the majority of refugees remained in camps, or were deported back to their home countries.
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