Bella Hadid is an American model of Palestinian and Dutch descent. She was born on October 9, 1996, in Washington, D.C., and raised in Santa Barbara, California. Her father, Mohamed Hadid, is a Palestinian American real estate developer, and her mother, Yolanda Hadid, is a Dutch-born American former model. Bella has two siblings, an older sister named Gigi, who is also a model, and a younger brother named Anwar.