Yolanda Hadid

Yolanda Hadid ( ; ; formerly Foster; born ) is a Dutch-born American television personality and former model. She is best known as a star of the American reality-television show The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. She is the mother of IMG models Gigi and Bella Hadid.

Early life Yolanda van den Herik was born and raised in Papendrecht, South Holland, to a family of Christian background. She has a brother named Leo. When she was seven years old, her father died in a car accident, which left her mother, Ans van den Herik (1941–2019), to raise the two children.

On January 11, 2018, her reality TV show competition Making a Model with Yolanda Hadid premiered on Lifetime, which had been developed under the working title Model Moms.

Personal life

She became a naturalized US citizen on May 23, 2013.

In October 2021, Hadid's daughter Gigi's partner Zayn Malik filed a no-contest plea to four charges of harassment by Hadid and was sentenced to 360 days of probation along with domestic violence and anger management programs.

Hadid's memoir Believe Me: My Battle with the Invisible Disability of Lyme Disease was published in 2017.

Health Hadid has stated repeatedly on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and elsewhere that she has symptoms attributed to chronic Lyme disease, a discredited diagnosis that has no scientific backing.

In December 2012, Hadid reported that she was having a port implanted in her arm to help treat what she has stated is chronic Lyme. In April 2013, she had the port removed. In January 2015, she revealed that, as a consequence of the illness that Hadid believes she has, she had "lost the ability to read, write, or even watch TV". Hadid also claimed that two of her children also have chronic Lyme.

Relationship and children Hadid's first marriage was to Mohamed Hadid, a real estate developer, from 1994 until 2000. The couple has three children together, Jelena "Gigi" On December 1, 2015, Hadid announced she and David Foster planned to divorce.

In May 2020, Hadid announced she was in a relationship with the CEO of a construction and development company called Jingoli, Joseph "Joey" Jingoli. They announced their engagement in August 2024. On June 5, 2025, she ended her engagement. In June 2026, she got engaged to real estate developer Randy Kendrick.

Filmography

Music videos

YearTitleArtistRole2014"G.U.Y."Lady GagaThe Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Band Member