Yahoo Lifestyle Gigi Hadid Is Model Of The Year
Gigi Hadid. Photo: Getty Images.
We're only a month into 2015, but we're already betting that it's one of Gigi Hadid's best yet.
The 19-year old has just been named Model Of The Year by the Daily Front Row, firmly cementing her status as one of the industry's most in-demand faces.
Hadid accepted the award in front of a crowd that included guests such as Kerry Washington and Christian Louboutin, as well as her Australian boyfriend, singer Cody Simpson.
"I think that it's nice when someone can go and look more exotic and do the girl-next-door thing, as well," Gigi told Style.com when asked why she thinks she won the award. "It goes with the whole high fashion versus commercial thing that's big right now. I think that perhaps people like me because I've been doing both."
Aside from her win, Hadid has inked deals with Maybelline and GUESS, and been spotted on the catwalk at Chanel.
But despite the media frenzy over her new "it girl" status, Hadid remains adamant that she'll stay healthy despite pressure to lose weight.
"I've kinda had an easy time with the whole body image thing, just because from the second I walked into IMG, I was like, 'This is what I wanna do with my career, but the one thing is that I'm not gonna lose a certain amount of weight. I'm not gonna be extremely skinny.' I just don't want to do that," she explains.
"I've always been an athlete. I've always had a certain body type that I've always been happy with and I didn't wanna let that go for a career."
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