Meet the Muslim model making Sports Illustrated Swimsuit history in a burkini

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Meet the Muslim model making Sports Illustrated Swimsuit history in a burkini

Halima Aden, 21, is breaking boundaries in the annual Swimsuit edition – after beingness the first woman to article of clothing a hijab in the Miss Minnesota Usa pageant.

Somali-American model Halima Aden has made history by condign the outset model to grace the pages of Sports Illustrated'south Swimsuit issue in a headscarf and burkini.

The almanac issue ordinarily features models in bikinis so this upcoming May edition has taken a incomparably more than pocket-size plow.

The 21-year-one-time was built-in in Kenya at the Kakuma Refugee Camp and lived in that location till the age of seven, before moving to the US. For the shoot, Aden returned to Republic of kenya – specifically Watamu Embankment – where she was photographed by Yu Tsai.

Aden opened upward almost the experience in the magazine'south accompanying interview. "I go on thinking [back] to six-year-one-time me who, in this aforementioned country, was in a refugee military camp. And then to abound upwardly to live the American dream [and] to come back to Kenya and shoot for SI in the well-nigh beautiful parts of Kenya – I don't think that's a story anybody could brand up."

SI Swimsuit editor MJ Day said: "We believe beauty knows no boundaries.... [Aden] is, in my opinion, one of the great beauties of our time, not only within but outside."

This isn't the first time Aden is making waves – she was the offset woman to wear a hijab in the Miss Minnesota The states pageant when she was just nineteen. She has also appeared on the cover of British Vogue and walked the runway during New York Fashion Week.

Meet the Muslim model making Sports Illustrated Swimsuit history in a burkini

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