'I lost touch with who I was': Hijabi model Halima Aden steps away from fashion industry

Somali-American Muslim model Halima Aden is taking a step back from the fashion industry, after years of wearing various non-hijab head coverings in photoshoots.On Instagram, she said she allowed herself to get persuaded into wearing head coverings in photoshoots that were not hijabsIn a, Aden wrote this week that she was "not rushing back to the fashion industry" thanks in part to her mother's pleas "to open [her] eyes".

"Thanks to COVID and the breakaway from the industry I have finally realized where I went wrong on my hijab journey." Born in a refugee camp in Kenya, she moved to the United States with her family when she was seven years old and was the first Muslim homecoming queen at her high school in Minnesota, the first Somali student senator at her college andIn her Instagram posts, Aden detailed where she felt the religious covering, the hijab, had been respected — for example in a campaign for Rihanna's Fenty beauty line — and where it had gone astray.

She showed an instance when her head had been wrapped in jeans in a campaign for denim brand American Eagle and another where she was portrayed as the subject of the famous Vermeer painting, Girl With A Pearl Earring, where she was wearing a head covering but not a hijab.Halima Aden wore various different head coverings in shoots, but not always hijabs.

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