Mohamed Hadid, proud dad of supermodels Gigi and Bella Hadid, is opening up about the advice he shared with his daughters as children.
“I just tell them to be safe and be confident,” Mohamed, 76, exclusively told Us Weekly on March 2, while attending Elton John’s star-studded Oscars viewing and after party.
“I think they have great mothers,” Mohamed continued. “All of my kids, so they have a really good background.”
The father of five shares Bella, Gigi and Anwar Hadid with ex-wife Yolanda Hadid. Mohamed also shares daughters Marielle and Alana Hadid with his first wife, Mary Butler (the pair divorced in 1992).
“I made them that way. It was just.. I did it by myself,” Mohamed joked of raising his successful daughters, including Alana, whose production company Watermelon Pictures — described as a Palestinian-owned independent film distribution, production and financing company, per Deadline — produced the Oscar-nominated film No Other Land.
“She’s at the Oscars,” Mohamed said of his daughter Alana on March 2. (No Other Land went on to win the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.)
Mohamed is not only a proud father, but a proud grandfather — in 2020, the real estate mogul could hardly contain his excitement after news broke that his daughter Gigi was expecting her first child with then-boyfriend Zayn Malik.
“Normally I don’t talk about family affairs in the public, so let’s leave it alone for now,” Mohamed told Al Jadeed TV via Instagram Live at the time. “I have to get used to a lot of things, so let’s keep that conversation for the next time.”
Mohamed went on to explain that he wanted to discuss Gigi’s pregnancy, which was kept a secret for months, with his daughter before celebrating publicly.
“Let me digest it and talk to her first ‘cause I’m not sure if it’s real or not,” he explained. “If she is, I’ll be very happy just as long as the baby is healthy and she’s healthy. That’s all I care [about]. I’ll be very proud of her if she has one. As of now, I’m not sure, so that’s why I can’t give an answer.”
That same year, Mohamed shared a poem for his future grandchild on Instagram.
“Hello little grandchild, it is me, my heart as happy as can be,” the poem read. “I wish for you the sun & moon, I wish for you a happy time. Know that grandpa’s always near, to do anything, anything for you my dear.”
Gigi gave birth to her daughter, Khai, in September 2020. The model had an unmedicated home birth in an inflatable bath tub in her bedroom.
Mohamed went on to write, ‘When I heard you were on the way, I smiled and wiped a tear away. I cried the tear because I know, my heart would always belong to you.”
Reporting by Sienna Leone
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