Minnesota's Halima Aden Makes History as the First Model to Wear a Hijab

At the age of 19, Halima made headlines when she was the first woman to wear a hijab in the Miss Minnesota USA pageant, where she was a semi-finalist.

For her first photo shoot, the magazine took her back to her native country Kenya to pose and she was also the first woman to wear a hijab in the Miss Minnesota USA pageant,according to SI.


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