We chat to the model and UNICEF ambassador in regards to the importance of representation
Born in a refugee camp in Kenya after her mother fled the Somali Civil War, Halima Aden spent her childhood there until the age of seven, when she and her mother moved to the US and eventually settled in Minnesota. From there Halima went from strength to strength, checking off firsts as she went. Thriving at college each academically and socially (she was St. Cloud’s first Muslim Homecoming Queen), Halima went on to school where she was the primary Somali member of the Student Government, before participating within the Miss Minnesota USA beauty pageant. As the primary contestant...
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