{"id":73030,"date":"2025-10-12T01:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T01:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/73030\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T01:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T01:58:09","slug":"gigi-hadid-gets-emotional-recalling-the-scrutiny-she-faced-during-her-early-modeling-days-the-world-was-so-hard-on-her-gigi-hadid-celebrity-news-and-gossip-entertainment-phot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/73030\/","title":{"rendered":"Gigi Hadid Gets Emotional Recalling the Scrutiny She Faced During Her Early Modeling Days: \u2018The World Was So Hard On Her\u2019 | Gigi Hadid | Celebrity News and Gossip | Entertainment, Photos and Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the annual Victoria\u2019s Secret Fashion Show fast approaching, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/gigi-hadid\/\" title=\"Gigi Hadid\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gigi Hadid<\/a> is reflecting on booking her first gig with the lingerie brand 10 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old model is featured in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DPoSvmjjk4x\/\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DPoSvmjjk4x\/&#039;); return false;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> video shared by Victoria\u2019s Secret on Friday (October 10). In it, she recalls the \u201cdream come true\u201d that was securing a spot in the 2015 show.<\/p>\n<p>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Gigi got a little teary-eyed as she recounted what it was like dealing with the industry\u2019s scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just so happy for her,\u201d former Next in Fashion co-host shared, referring to her younger self, \u201cShe just wanted it so bad. I look back at pictures of that time and the world was so hard on her\u2014and not just me, hard on girls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was an awesome time. I deserved to be there and to continue to come back to this show. I\u2019m just so happy for that girl that got the first show, and also my teenage self who watched the show,\u201d Gigi continued.<\/p>\n<p>She will be participating in this year\u2019s fashion show, too, which is happening on October 15.<\/p>\n<p>In case you missed it, Gigi was recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/10\/04\/gigi-hadid-spotted-on-set-of-mindy-kalings-new-hulu-series-not-suitable-for-work-seemingly-joins-cast-as-guest-star\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">spotted on the set of Mindy Kaling\u2018s new Hulu series Not Suitable For Work<\/a>, potentially meaning she\u2019ll be on the show as a guest star!<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the annual Victoria\u2019s Secret Fashion Show fast approaching, Gigi Hadid is reflecting on booking her first gig&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-73030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}