Gigi Hadid Age 2026: How Old Is the Supermodel at 31?

Last updated: October 30, 2026  ·  By Nathan Cole

Gigi Hadid is 31 years old in 2026. She was born Jelena Noura Hadid on April 23, 1995, in Los Angeles, California, and she turned 31 on April 23, 2026, celebrating with a farm brunch at her Pennsylvania farmhouse alongside her daughter Khai. She turns 32 on April 23, 2027. That single date answers the search, but it also frames a career that has already run for three decades: a child model at two, a New York runway debut at 18, a Maybelline contract at 19, International Model of the Year at 21, a mother at 25, and a fashion founder at 27.

Hadid’s age matters to her story in a way that goes past a birthday. Fashion is an industry that usually moves its stars on fast, and the models who last past 30 tend to do it by changing jobs — from face to founder, from campaign to company. Hadid made that change in public. She launched Guest in Residence, her cashmere label, in September 2022, and in September 2026 she pushed it into denim, with her sister Bella fronting the campaign. She still closes runways: on October 5, 2026, she closed Miu Miu’s Spring/Summer 2027 show at Paris Fashion Week. The 31-year-old in this profile is not a retired model. She is a working model who also runs a business.

This profile answers the age question first, then follows the life in order: the Los Angeles birth, the Malibu school years, the Baby Guess start, the IMG signing, the 2015 breakthrough, the Tommy Hilfiger years, the Guest in Residence build, motherhood, and the Bradley Cooper years. Her net worth is estimated at $30 million inside a published range of $25–40 million, and her height is listed at 5 ft 10 in (178 cm) by most profile outlets. Every figure is tied to the outlet that reported it, and every estimate is labeled as one.

How Old Is Gigi Hadid in 2026?

Gigi Hadid is 31 years old in 2026. She was born on April 23, 1995, which means she spent the first three and a half months of 2026 as a 30-year-old and turned 31 in the spring. The birthday itself was a quiet one by celebrity standards: reports from May 2, 2026, describe an intimate home brunch at her Pennsylvania farmhouse with her daughter Khai, aged five, and a caption in which Hadid wrote, “Every year Luckier!”

The date is worth pinning down because so many age pages online are stale. Several profiles still describe her as 30 “as of 2026” because they were written before her April birthday, and a few still carry her 2025 age. The rule is simple: anyone born on April 23, 1995, is 31 from April 23, 2026, until April 22, 2027. She turns 32 on April 23, 2027.

That timeline also explains why her age keeps coming up in 2026 coverage. At 31, she sits in the narrow band where a model is both a veteran and a founder: old enough to have a 13-year professional career behind her, young enough to still close a Paris show, as she did for Miu Miu on October 5, 2026.

Early Life: Los Angeles, Malibu, and a Family in the Spotlight

Jelena Noura Hadid was born in Los Angeles to Mohamed Hadid, a Palestinian-American real estate developer known for luxury homes in Bel Air, and Yolanda Hadid, a Dutch-born former model who later became a cast member on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Her parents divorced in 2000, when Gigi was five. She grew up largely around Santa Barbara and Malibu, a childhood shaped by horses, volleyball, and school rather than by the fashion world her mother had left.

The family part of the story is often told backwards, as if Gigi were born famous. She was not. Her mother had modeled, and her father had money, but Gigi’s own public life started with a children’s clothing catalogue, stopped for school, and only restarted when she was an adult. Malibu High School, where she played volleyball and graduated in 2013, was the last normal stretch before the pace changed completely.

Her siblings followed similar paths at different speeds. Bella Hadid, born in 1996, and Anwar Hadid, born in 1999, both became models. She also has two older paternal half-sisters, Marielle and Alana Hadid. In early 2025, Gigi and Bella announced that they had a younger half-sister, Aydan Nix, born to their father and Terri Hatfield Dull after his divorce from Yolanda. The announcement was a reminder that the Hadid family tree is larger, and more complicated, than the three siblings most coverage names.

Baby Guess at Two: The Child Model Years

Hadid’s first modeling job came at age two, when Guess co-founder Paul Marciano discovered her and she modeled for Baby Guess. It is one of the most repeated facts in her biography, and it is also the most misunderstood. She did not work steadily as a child model. After the Baby Guess work, she stepped away from modeling to focus on school, and the long gap between that toddler catalogue and her adult career is the point: the famous start was a beginning, not a career.

She returned to the idea of modeling only after graduating from Malibu High School in 2013. She moved to New York and enrolled at The New School to study criminal psychology — a detail that still surprises readers, because it sounds like a different person’s plan. It was, in a sense: the student who signed up for criminal psychology in 2013 was not yet sure modeling would pay, and the decision to leave the course and model full time was a gamble, not a coronation.

The nickname came even earlier. Her mother called her Gigi as a child, after a classmate also named Helena caused confusion at school — a story Hadid retold publicly in May 2026, when UNILAD reported her explaining that “Gigi” was not her real name. Her real name, Jelena Noura Hadid, still appears on formal credits, but the nickname won years ago.

IMG Models and the 2014 New York Breakthrough

In 2013, at 18, Hadid signed with IMG Models in New York. The signing is the hinge of her career. Within months she was working in a different league from the catalogue work of her childhood, and in February 2014 she made her New York Fashion Week debut walking for Desigual. The same month she appeared on the cover of Carine Roitfeld’s CR Fashion Book, a high-fashion credit that signaled she was not being positioned as a commercial model alone.

By November 2014 she had debuted in Models.com’s Top 50 Models ranking. That ranking matters because it is an industry measure, not a fan vote: it tracks bookings, covers, and campaigns. A debut in the Top 50 within a year of signing with IMG meant the agencies, editors, and casting directors had already reached the same verdict. The 18-year-old who had left a criminal psychology course was, within a year, a ranked working model in New York.

2015–2016: Maybelline, Victoria’s Secret, and Model of the Year

The year 2015 compressed a career’s worth of milestones into twelve months. In January, the Daily Front Row named her Model of the Year, and Maybelline signed her as a brand ambassador — the start of a partnership that would run for years and anchor her commercial income. She appeared in the 2015 Pirelli Calendar, became an ambassador for the Australian swimwear label Seafolly, and appeared in Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood” music video. By May 2015 she had walked for Marc Jacobs, Chanel, Michael Kors, Jean Paul Gaultier and Max Mara.

December 2015 brought her first Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show appearance, the booking that, for a generation of models, marked the crossing from fashion insider to household name. The following year, 2016, was the peak of the run: she walked for Versace, Chanel, Elie Saab, Fendi, Marc Jacobs, Anna Sui, Miu Miu, Balmain, Diane von Furstenberg, Tommy Hilfiger, Fenty x Puma, Isabel Marant and Giambattista Valli, and the British Fashion Council named her International Model of the Year at the 2016 Fashion Awards. She was 21.

Forbes, which still published a model-earnings ranking at the time, estimated she earned $10 million in 2016, per Celebrity Net Worth’s summary of the Forbes figure. Secondary summaries put her peak-year annual earnings around $9–13 million across 2016–2018. Forbes dropped its model ranking after 2018, so later annual figures in profiles are secondary estimates, not Forbes numbers — a distinction most age and net worth pages skip, and one that matters when a reader tries to compare her 2016 income with her 2026 income.

Tommy x Gigi and the Brand-Building Years

In January 2016, Hadid became Tommy Hilfiger’s global brand ambassador for womenswear, fronting campaigns for apparel, underwear and fragrance. The partnership went further than a standard endorsement: she co-designed a capsule collection, Tommy x Gigi, released in fall 2016 at New York Fashion Week, with further collections following. The same year she became a Reebok ambassador. The pattern was deliberate. A runway model rents her image by the show; a brand ambassador rents it by the year, and a co-designer keeps a share of the product itself.

Those deals explain the shape of her fortune better than any single runway fee. Maybelline, Tommy Hilfiger, Versace, BMW, Reebok, Evian and Stuart Weitzman all appear in her campaign history, and the long contracts — Maybelline in particular — paid steadily across years when runway seasons came and went. Profiles that credit her with more than 50 appearances in international Vogue editions are counting the other half of the same strategy: editorial prestige that keeps the commercial rate high.

She also kept a television presence in these years without making it her job. She co-hosted Netflix’s Next in Fashion season 2 with Tan France in 2023, a hosting credit that fit the founder phase already underway: by then she was presenting other designers’ work rather than only wearing it.

Guest in Residence: From Model to Founder

In September 2022, at 27, Hadid launched Guest in Residence, a cashmere knitwear label on which she serves as founder and creative director. The launch was a career change dressed as a product launch. Models who start labels often license their name; Hadid built this one as a working creative director, with stores in New York and Los Angeles and a product line that started with knitwear and home pieces and has since widened.

The early reception, by her own later account and by trade coverage, was skeptical. A Puck piece in late October 2025 described Guest in Residence as “a $30 million business,” a figure repeated in an October 29, 2026, report of Hadid visiting her New York store on October 28, 2026. The $30 million there is a business valuation reported by Puck, not Hadid’s personal net worth, and the two numbers should not be swapped: her personal estimate and her company’s reported value happen to land near the same figure, which is a coincidence that has confused more than one profile.

The label’s 2026 moves show how far it has traveled from a knitwear startup. In May 2025 she became a Havaianas global ambassador with an exclusive collection. In October 2025 she launched a children’s collaboration with the Parisian house Bonpoint. Then, on September 14, 2026, Guest in Residence launched its first women’s denim collection for fall 2026: four styles — the high-waisted, wide-leg Traveler; the relaxed, straight-leg Everyday; the tapered Weekender with a raw hem; and the Workday carpenter jean with double-knee patches and a hammer loop — priced from $265 to $325 in sizes 23 to 32, made in Turkey from Turkish mill fabric, developed over about a year with denim designer Benjamin Talley Smith. Bella Hadid joined the campaign, her first for Guest in Residence, photographed by Clara Balzary in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in a Western theme. Gigi wore the Workday; Bella wore the Traveler.

Gigi Hadid Net Worth in 2026: What the –40 Million Range Means

Hadid’s net worth in 2026 is estimated at $30 million, inside a published range of $25–40 million. The spread is honest, and it is worth explaining rather than hiding. Celebrity Net Worth and several 2026 profiles sit near $30 million. Icon Polls estimates around $35 million. Alux’s October 2026 richest-models list puts her at $40 million. One 2026 ranking puts her near $25 million. The gap reflects different methods: some outlets count only modeling and endorsement income, others price in Guest in Residence, and none of them has audited accounts to settle the question.

What the record does support is the shape of the money. Her peak reported annual earnings came in 2016–2018, when Forbes still ranked models and secondary summaries put her at roughly $9–13 million a year. The long contracts — Maybelline from 2015, Tommy Hilfiger from 2016 — paid across many seasons. The founder income is newer and harder to value: Guest in Residence is a private company, its revenue is not published, and the ” $30 million business” figure from Puck is a trade-press valuation, not a sale price or a profit figure.

For context, her fortune sits well below the richest models in Alux’s October 2026 list — Gisele Bündchen at an estimated $400 million — and above her sister Bella’s commonly cited $25–28 million range. That ordering feels right against the career record: Gigi’s commercial contracts ran longer and broader, and she moved into ownership earlier, while Bella’s fragrance line Orebella is a more recent build. None of that makes $30 million exact. It makes it the best-supported anchor inside a range the reader can see.

Motherhood: Khai and Life at 31

Hadid’s daughter, Khai Hadid Malik, was born on September 19, 2020, when Hadid was 25. Khai’s father is singer Zayn Malik, whose on-and-off relationship with Hadid ran from 2015 to 2021. Hadid has kept Khai largely out of public view — no face photographs in her own posts, no reality-show storyline — and the 31st birthday brunch in April 2026, at the Pennsylvania farmhouse, was typical of that approach: a home gathering, shared on her own terms, with Khai present and unnamed in most coverage beyond her age, five.

Motherhood changed the shape of her working life in a visible way. The farmhouse, the knitwear label, and the slower pace of campaign work over constant runway seasons all date from the same period. She has not retired from modeling — the October 2026 Miu Miu close proves that — but the center of her working identity has shifted from the girl on every runway in 2015 to the founder who still walks when the show matters. That is a normal arc for a model at 31, and Hadid’s version of it has been unusually public because she documented the label, not just the looks.

Bradley Cooper and Life in 2026

Hadid has been in a relationship with actor Bradley Cooper since October 2023, when the pair were first seen at dinner in New York. Later reporting says they met at a children’s party; both are parents, Cooper to a daughter with model Irina Shayk. The couple went Instagram-official around Hadid’s 30th birthday in May 2025, when she shared a photo of them together, and they have since been photographed together in New York and Paris without ever making the relationship a red-carpet act.

The year 2026 has been full of Cooper-adjacent headlines, and most of them need a caution label. Bolavip’s April 23, 2026, birthday profile described “2026 wedding rumors” and reported that publications were claiming Cooper had sought Yolanda Hadid’s blessing, with insiders predicting an engagement later in the year. Icon Polls’ 2026 profile states the position plainly: as of 2026 she is not married, and no engagement to Bradley Cooper has been confirmed by either of them. This profile follows that line. The verified 2026 facts are the public appearances: the Breakthrough Prize Ceremony on April 18, 2026; the Paris night out after the Miu Miu show on October 5, 2026, when Harper’s Bazaar reported the pair stepping out together; and the October 2026 Threads post defending Elsa Hosk, which showed Hadid still speaking as a working model about working conditions.

That Threads post deserves a line of its own, because it is the freshest proof of who she is at 31. After critics questioned Elsa Hosk’s walk at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show on October 18, 2026, Hadid wrote that the wings can weigh over 75 pounds and require three men to remove, per OK Magazine and EntertainmentNow. It was a veteran defending a colleague about the physical reality of a job most viewers only see as glamour — the kind of comment only someone who has worn the wings can make with authority.

Height, Looks, and the Numbers People Search

Hadid’s height is listed at 5 ft 10 in (178 cm) by most profile outlets. One profile summary cites IMG as listing 5 ft 11 in (180 cm). The one-inch gap is the usual agency-versus-profile difference — agencies round up, profiles round to the commonly cited figure — and this profile gives the widely listed figure while naming the variant, rather than pretending the record is unanimous.

The other numbers readers search for are steadier. She has appeared in more than 50 international Vogue editions, per the career summaries that track her covers. Models.com lists her among its “New Supers,” its designation for the most influential models of their generation. She was named International Model of the Year by the British Fashion Council in 2016, and Daily Front Row Model of the Year in January 2015. Those are the awards that matter in her field, and they all date from before she turned 22 — which is itself a comment on how early, and how completely, she arrived.

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Sources & Reporting

This profile was researched on October 30, 2026, from live search results and the outlets named throughout: Icon Polls and Bolavip for the 2026 picture (age 31, Guest in Residence, the Bradley Cooper relationship and the unconfirmed engagement position); Harper’s Bazaar, via its October 5, 2026, report, for the Miu Miu Spring/Summer 2027 close in Paris; OK Magazine and EntertainmentNow for the October 23, 2026, Threads defense of Elsa Hosk after the October 18, 2026, Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show; the October 29, 2026, store-visit report for the October 28, 2026, Guest in Residence visit and the Puck “$30 million business” description; HOLR Magazine and the same store report for the September 14, 2026, denim launch (four styles, $265–$325, Benjamin Talley Smith, Bella Hadid’s first campaign for the label, Clara Balzary in Jackson Hole); Celebrity Net Worth for the $30 million anchor and the Forbes $10 million 2016 earnings summary; Alux’s October 2026 richest-models list for the $40 million upper figure; and Wikipedia and the career summaries for the dated timeline (Baby Guess at two, IMG in 2013, Desigual debut in February 2014, Maybelline and Daily Front Row in January 2015, Victoria’s Secret debut in December 2015, International Model of the Year in 2016, Tommy x Gigi in fall 2016, Next in Fashion in 2023).

Where outlets disagree — on the net worth total, on the height figure, and on engagement speculation — this profile names the disagreement and attributes each figure to its outlet rather than picking a winner silently. No figure in this article comes from an anonymous “sources say” claim, and no fact has been added that the supplied research does not support. Corrections policy: figures are updated when new reporting emerges — contact us via the About page if you spot an error.