Gigi Hadid shares how she plans to broach the multi-ethnic background with her daughter.

Gigi Hadid grew up in a multi-ethnic household; her mother Yolanda is Dutch and her father Mohamed is Palestinian. Her own family consists of different backgrounds&mdash;her partner Zayn Malik has a Pakistani father and a British mother. In a recent interview, the model opened up about the importance of recognizing her own ethnic background and how she and the &quot;Pillowtalk&quot; singer plan to introduce these influences into their daughter Khai&#39;s upbringing.

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&quot;We think about it and talk about it a lot as partners and it&#39;s something that&#39;s really important to us, but it&#39;s also something we&#39;ve been through ourselves. Because both of our parents have their own backgrounds,&quot; Hadid tells iD. &quot;We&#39;re that first generation of these mixed backgrounds, and then that comes with that first generation experience of, &#39;Oh, I&#39;m the bridge!&#39; That&#39;s not something my parents went through or could really help me through. It&#39;s something I&#39;ve always thought about all my life.&quot;

&quot;You always wonder what race you belong to. Sometimes I feel too white to stand up for Arab affairs. Is what I am enough to do what feels right? Or am I abusing the privileges I have because of my white side? Can I talk about one side of myself, or am I talking about something that I don&#39;t experience enough?&quot; the model confesses

She also expressed her curiosity about how her daughter will handle these same issues. &quot;I think she will find her own way to bring her different cultures together. I think it would be interesting to have those conversations with her and see what says herself, without us imposing anything on her. What comes from her is true I&#39;m most excited about, and that I can add to that or answer her questions.&quot;

Gigi Hadid talks how she and Zayn Malik raise daughter Khai in a multi-ethnic home

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