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Gigi Hadid on hearing she "didn't have a runway body"

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Photo credit: Slaven Vlasic - Getty Images

From Harper's BAZAAR

Model Gigi Hadid has opened up about body image in a new tell-all interview, explaining how she'd received some difficult comments on her figure when she started out as a teenager.

Speaking to i-D, Hadid, now 24-years-old, said: "At the time I was still starting out in my career, I was coming out of high school, I still had my volleyball body. It was a body that I loved. I knew how hard I worked to have those muscles, to be curved in those places – I kind of miss it now."

She continued on to talk about how tough it was starting her career, as people told her she didn't have the "right" figure for high fashion.

"At the time, people were hard on me and tried to say that I didn’t have a runway body."

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Photo credit: Frazer Harrison - Getty Images

She then shared how Jean Paul Gaultier was one of the first designers to give her a shot on his catwalk, and how she felt grateful when he chose an outfit for her which didn't keep her body covered up.

"For Jean Paul to have me at his ready-to-wear show in 2015 – not only to have me, but also to put me in an outfit that didn’t cover a lot (there were still stylists or designers at that time who were putting me in their shows, but putting me in something that really covered my body). So, for him to make me feel like he wanted me to shine in that way, it really meant a lot to me as a young model."

Photo credit: Pascal Le Segretain - Getty Images
Photo credit: Pascal Le Segretain - Getty Images

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