Not ready for her close-up! Gigi Hadid reflected on how much her life changed when mom Yolanda Hadid joined The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills in 2012.“When I think of my childhood, I think of [being] the crazy, ecstatic volleyball player.
I was that loud voice. I loved sports, I loved being on a team, I loved school and my friends. That’s what comes naturally to me,” Gigi, 26, recalled during her March 2022 InStyle cover story, which was published on Wednesday, February 2. “But when people first started to get to know me, it was like, ‘Oh, her mom was [Yolanda Hadid] on [The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills].
That is her life.’ But that wasn’t my life or a part of my growing up.”The model was forced to quickly adjust to cameras appearing in her home — and she eventually developed a system to avoid being filmed herself.“My mom wasn’t on TV until I was a senior in high school, so I was just on my way out of the house.
But it was weird for me,” Gigi confessed. “I would come home from school and there would be production trucks outside. I would scale the staircase to my room so I wouldn’t have to go say hi to my mom in the kitchen.”Yolanda, 58, starred on the Bravo series for three seasons from 2012 to 2016.
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