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In first, Sports Illustrated will feature burkini-clad model

  (Agence France-Presse)
Washington, United States
Tue, April 30, 2019

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In first, Sports Illustrated will feature burkini-clad model Model Halima Aden at the annual Glamour Women of the Year Awards ceremony held in Brooklyn's Kings Theater on Flatbush Ave. (Shutterstock/a katz)

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ports Illustrated's annual swimsuit issue, best known for its racy covers of scantily clad bikini models, will feature for the first time a Muslim model wearing a hijab and burkini, the magazine said Monday.

Somali-American model Halima Aden's rookie spread will be set in Kenya, where she born in a refugee camp and lived until the age of seven. 

"Growing up in the States, I never really felt represented because I never could flip through a magazine and see a girl who was wearing a hijab," Aden said in a video tweeted by the magazine. 

Sports Illustrated also posted a picture of her posing lying down in shallow water, wearing a turquoise hijab, long yellow earrings and a deep blue burkini -- the full length swimsuit favored by some Muslim women.

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Halima, 21, made headlines at age 19 when she was the first woman to wear a hijab in the Miss Minnesota USA Pageant, where she made the semi-finals in 2016. 

She has previously featured on the cover of British Vogue and walked on the New York Fashion Week runway.

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