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Zayn Malik Defends Gigi Hadid After Model Faces Racism Accusations
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Zayn Malik Defends Gigi Hadid After Model Faces Racism Accusations

But Twitter still wasn’t having it.

By Renée Tse
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We don’t know if Gigi Hadid is the luckiest or the unluckiest girl today.

In a recent Snapchat video courtesy of sister Bella Hadid, Gigi is seen picking up a small sculpture (or cookie?) of a buddha’s face and doing her, erm, best impersonation of it at a friend’s birthday party. Not cool.

Given that her boyfriend Zayn Malik is half-Pakistani, Twitter trolls were quick to point it out and had plenty to say regarding the model’s recent ignorant actions.

Though the Hadid sisters may have seen it as harmless at the time, Bella has since deleted the story from her account, proving it may not have been their proudest moment to date. As for Zayn? Per devoted boyfriend duties, the singer cheekily responded to a Twitter user when asked how he felt about his girlfriend making fun of people of Asian descent.

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Obviously, people had to something to say about his tweet.

Clearly, Zayn is not worried and Gigi proved it with a photo on her IG story.

Case closed.

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