Yolanda Foster is a former model, a participant in television shows and an interior designer. Best known as the star of the American reality show "Real Housewives Beverly Hills" and the mother of successful models Gigi and Bella Hadid, who have millions of followers on the social network Instagram.
Early life
Yolanda van der Herick (maiden name) was born on January 11, 1964 in the small Dutch town of Papendrecht, in a Christian family. She has a brother named Leo. Her father died in a car accident when the girl was seven years old, leaving her mother to raise two children.
Career
Dutch designer Frans Molenaar asked Yolanda to replace one of her models with a show where she was noticed by Eileen Ford, the founder of the famous Ford Models modeling agency. Soon after, her first model contract was signed with young Yolanda. After that, the girl participated in the shows of famous brands on the best catwalks in the world. She worked successfully for 15 years before arranging her personal life and starting a family. In 1994, Yolanda moved to Los Angeles to marry a well-known businessman in the field of real estate of Palestinian origin, Mohammed Hadid.
Yolanda Foster’s illness prompted her to write her memoir, Believe Me: My Battle with Lyme Disease, which came out in 2017.
In January 2018, the premiere of her television contest "Creating a Model with Yolanda Hadid", the first showing of which took place on one of the American cable channels, took place.
Personal life
Yolanda’s first marriage with Muhammad Hadid lasted 6 years (from 1994 to 2000). In the marriage, the couple had three children, Gelena "Gigi" (04/23/1995), Isabella (Bella) (10/09/1996) and Anwar (06/22/1999).
On November 11, 2011, having received a marriage proposal on Christmas Eve in 2010, Yolanda married a Canadian singer and producer David Foster in Beverly Hills, California. In the biography of Yolanda Foster, this is the second marriage.
After some time, Yolanda turned to doctors with complaints of exhaustion, joint pain, insomnia and neurological disorders. In 2012, she was diagnosed with Lyme disease (an infectious disease transmitted by ticks), which she repeatedly stated in several episodes of the television show "Real Beverly Hills Housewives."
Yolanda met with several specialists before she was correctly diagnosed. “I was so exhausted, it was even hard for me to walk from bed to bath, my headaches were unbearable. I had this inexplicable cough that lasted several months, ”she shared in an interview.
In December 2012, Yolanda said that she has a port (this is a special medical device implanted under the patient’s skin, which is used for frequent injections, as well as blood sampling for testing), it is implanted in the arm to treat Lyme disease. In April 2013, she removed the port. Later, in January 2015, she stated that due to illness, she “couldn’t write, read, or just watch TV.”
The children of Yolanda Foster, Bella and Anwar, also found Lyme disease caused by a tick bite.
On December 1, 2015, Yolanda announced that she and David Foster were planning a divorce. After filing for divorce, she changed her surname to Hadid so that she matches the surname of her children. The divorce was completed in May 2017.