Liberals really know how to spoil a good thing. The latest American tradition to be spoiled is the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. Several pages in the new issue are dedicated to a Muslim woman posing fully clothed from the top of her head to her feet. Kate Upton, she ain’t.
It’s really a mood killer. The least Sports Illustrated can do is to lower the price of its new issue by the number of pages without a supermodel wearing practically nothing on it being wasted.
The model, Halima Aden, was the first Muslim to enter the Miss Minnesota contest but after she wore a full-length burkini, it was all over for her.
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)– A Minnesota woman is breaking boundaries in the modeling world, becoming the first model to wear a hijab and burkini for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit.
Twenty-one-year-old Halima Aden was born in the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya, but she grew up near St. Cloud, Minnesota.
The Somali-American model made history back in 2016 for becoming the first fully-covered Muslim woman to compete in the Miss Minnesota pageant.
Aden went on to sign with IMG models.
In 2017, she made her New York Fashion Week debut in Kanye West’s Yeezy Season 5 show.
Now, the Minnesota model is making history once again with Sports Illustrated Swimsuit.
According to Sports Illustrated, for Aden’s SI Swimsuit rookie spread, the model traveled to her birth country where she shot at Watuma Beach with photographer Yu Tsai.
“To grow up to live the American dream [and] to come back to Kenya and shoot for SI in the most beautiful parts of Kenya–I don’t think that’s a story that anybody could make up,” Aden told Sports Illustrated during her shoot.