"My mom asked me to quit modeling a LONG time ago. I wish I wasn't so defensive,'' the 23-year-old model wrote. "Thanks to COVID and the breakaway from the industry I have finally realized where I went wrong on my hijab journey.''
Aden became the first hijab-wearing model on the runways of Milan and New York, and has appeared on numerous magazine covers and in print campaigns.
Born in a refugee camp in Kenya, she moved to the United States with her family at age 7 and was the first Muslim homecoming queen at her high school in Minnesota, the first Somali student senator at her college and the first hijab-wearing woman in the Miss USA Minnesota pageant.
In her Instagram posts, Aden detailed where she felt the religious covering hijab had been respected -- for example in a campaign for Rihanna's Fenty beauty line -- and where it had gone astray, showing an instance when her head had been wrapped in jeans.
"I was just so desperate back then for any 'representation,' that I lost touch with who I was,'' she wrote on one post, and on another, wearing a crystal-encrusted headscarf, she said ""I should have walked off the set because clearly the stylist didn't have a hijab wearing woman in mind."
She said her acceptance of situations that showed a lack of respect for her beliefs was due to a mixture of rebellion and naivete. "What I blame the industry for is the lack of MUSLIM stylists,'' she wrote.
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