Hey everyone, I'm Amid al-Yakber, and this is He Something Say Something.

It's Ramadan, and as we've done for every week this month, we're bringing you a conversation

with an American Muslim who's in the spotlight of American media.

And this week, we're talking fashion and style with model Halima Aden.

You know, you can't represent everybody, but I do think I represent a lot of Muslim women

in the sense of we're striving hard and like we're working, we're breaking the glass ceiling.

And on the side, like, we love fashion.

If you see something, you better, you better say something.

Nothing at all, nothing at all.

Halima Aden is a Somali American international model and humanitarian featured everywhere from Rihanna's Fenty campaign to the cover of British

Vogue, Vogue Arabia, allure, and glamour. Welcome, Halima. Thank you. Ramadan Mubarak.

Ramadan, Kareem. Tell us what you do as a model. What's that life like? Actually, it depends on the day.

But really, I think there's not one way to really describe it because every shoot is different.

And it's not like I'm always doing photo shoots.

Sometimes it's like an appearance or sometimes it's like going to an event and then you forget that it's work.

But for me, it's very fun.

I think it's it always gets me into like my creative mind and, like, wanting to, like, pick stuff out and be really creative and not scared of looking just one way.

I think it just makes me a little bit more fearless as far as, like, fashion goes.

So tell me about your, like, trajectory of how you made it into this world.

So my upbringing could not have been further

from fashion from high from any of this like this is like day and night compared to like where it came

from i was actually born in a refugee camp in kenya uh called kakuma and it was actually in the

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