Yolanda Hadid, a former model & a Dutch cum American TV personality, is best known as the star of the American reality television show The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Gigi, Bella, and Anwar Hadid are her three children. IMG Models are all of them.
| Life & Career |
Yolanda Hadid was born in Papendrecht, on 11 January 1964, to a Christian family. Originally, the town was a poor farmer’s community with only impoverished people living there. Throughout their lifetimes, their family has faced numerous challenges.
She has a brother named Leo, thus she is not an only child. Her father died in a vehicle accident when she was 7 years old, leaving her mother, who was just 30, to raise the two children. She acclimated to the world of an independent woman and strengthened her nature to face all challenges.
She chose to help her family financially when she was 13 years old and began working as a dishwasher in a Chinese restaurant. She quit her job and went to work as a part-time cheese and sandwich seller a few years later. She finished her education. Using the money she made from working in other people’s homes.
Yolanda’s professional career began when Dutch designer Frans Molenaar invited her to fill in for one of his models at a presentation, where she was noticed by Eileen Ford and secured a contract with Ford Models.
She then went on to model in a number of locations including Paris, Milan, Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles, and Hamburg. She modelled for 15 years before deciding to settle down and establish a family. After meeting and marrying Mohammed Hadid, she went to Los Angeles to be with her family.
On 11th of January 2018, Yolanda’s reality TV show competition based on Making a Model with Yolanda Hadid, which had been produced under the working title Model Moms, launched on Lifetime.
Yolanda Hadid starred in the reality show as one of the main characters. She signed a deal with Ford Models during her modelling career. She modelled in a variety of places and had a reality TV show that aired on Lifetime.
| Personal Life & Relationships |
She was married twice. Her first marriage, to Mohammed Hadid, a real estate entrepreneur, lasted from year 1994 to year 2000. Gigi, Bella, and Anwar are 3 three children together. Then she married David Foster, a musician and producer based in California, on 11 Nov 2011.
Yolanda has said on various episodes of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills that she has been diagnosed with Lyme illness. She revealed in 2012 that she had a port placed in her arm to treat her chronic Lyme disease. In 2013, her port was removed.
As a result of her disease, she lost her ability to read and write, even watch television in 2015. Yolanda confirmed that she and David were divorcing on 1 Dec 2015. The divorce was finalized in May of 2017. Sadly, none of her marriages were successful.
| Net Worth |
Yolanda has a net worth of approximately $50 million. She’s also worked on a number of TV shows, including lst and ten, Vanderpump Rules, Project Runaway, and others. As a result of all of this, she now earns $100,000 per season.