Supermodel Halima Aden is coverstar for Essence Magazine latest issue..

Halima is stunning in absolutely colourful images for her  Essence Magazine overshoot.

In 2017, both Vogue and Cosmopolitan anointed Aden a breakout star. 

That same year Rihanna tapped her to appear in Fenty Beauty’s debut video. 

But it’s more than Aden’s on-camera presence that has won her a legion of fans. At 22, the stunner is helping to disrupt conventional beauty standards as one of the first hijab-wearing models to rise to international fame. And she’s using her platform to change the world.

Aden, who was born in a Kenyan refugee camp, relocated to the United States when she was 7; her family eventually settled in St. Cloud, Minnesota. She likes to say that her life is filled with “firsts”—the first Muslim homecoming queen at her high school; the first Somali student senator at her college; and the first hijab-wearing woman to be the face of numerous fashion magazine covers, including Allure and British Vogue.

 “It’s important for me to be visible and to do whatever I can to let girls know that they don’t have to change who they are,” she says. “I want them to know the world will meet them exactly where they stand.”

More stunning shots below...