Halima Aden is making history as the first model to pose for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit wearing a hijab and a burkini — and she couldn’t be prouder. “Being featured in this year’s Sports Illustrated ...

The 20-year-old is a Somali refugee who immigrated to the U.S. when she was 7. Halima Aden is smashing barriers as the first model to wear a hijab while gracing the covers of magazines, walking the ...

The young Somali-American model has been breaking down barriers in fashion A Somali-American model has become the first to wear a hijab and burkini in the swimwear edition of Sports Illustrated ...

Somali-American model Halima Aden just made history by gracing the pages of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue wearing a hijab and burkini. The Kenyan-born model said it was a "dream come true." ...

Model Halima Aden is using her time toward an amazing cause. Halima Aden has donated her time to create stylish masks for hijab-wearing medical professionals that are working on the front lines of ...

After she strolled into a makeup and hair room for our interview Friday, giggling in a belted, striped Olivia Von Halle dress and a Halima Aden x Mondanisa hijab (she was beaming as she told us it was ...

The model and activist is the new spokesperson for the Vita Coco Project, a social impact initiative that supports coconut farmers in the Philippines and Sri Lanka Style + Beauty Assistant, PEOPLE ...

Here, writer Jenna Sauers interviews model and activist Halima Aden for our 2017 Women Who Dare series. Halima Aden was born to Somali parents in a UN refugee camp in northeastern Kenya. Her parents ...

Returning to Kakuma, the refugee camp in northwestern Kenya where she was born in 1997, wasn't easy for Halima Aden. She spent her early childhood in this sprawling settlement, home to 185,000 ...

She landed her first Vogue editorial in the July 2017 issue Colleen Kratofil is the Senior Editor, TV at PEOPLE. You may not see her on every billboard or follow her on Instagram (although over 200k ...