Pellau Magazine: Modelling in Islam - Modelling with a passion

MODELING - A Life's Lesson

When we’re born we’re stained into a spiral of traditions, religion and race

What happens when that child takes her respect for her religion and passion for modeling and puts her heart in what is produced?

In this interview I’ll be talking with a young Muslim model who hopes to set an example by telling girls

“You don’t need to show off your body to be beautiful”

Beauty to me is defined by the person’s soul then their looks, without their soul they’re just the embodiment of a “doll” so let’s get started:

This is Fatima Mohammed born on the 24^th of September 1995 and is a devoted Muslim with a passion for modeling

In this Interview I've asked Fatima about her life and religion and why modeling has impact her life:

Me:

#1: what made you decide that, well you want to model??? Friends, family? You have a strong passion for it so tell us what has drawn you to it?

Fatima

#1) I decided I wanted to model because I just love myself and it’s a way to get out and express myself clearly. I love fashion and wanted to become a fashion designer and model but never got the opportunity. Now that I’m getting the opportunity I’m “jumping” at it and will make the best of it. Also, a friend once said to me that I have such a great personality and my smile is so radiant you should be a model! That inspired me even more.

Me:

#2: how has religion (wearing your Hijab ect) has made you different from the rest of models who strive to show off their bodies without another thought as how it’s affecting them?

Fatima

#2) I really love my religion and as a Muslim, women like me are not allowed to show their body. We are taught to dress modestly. I’m not a perfect Muslim, but I do my best. Hijab has made me unique from everyone else. It goes two ways-religion and fashion because I do like to step up in everything I wear and add my own fashion ideas as well. Wearing a hijab doesn’t make me any less beautiful of a person than someone who shows cleavages and skin! Once I know to myself I’m beautiful, then that’s all that matters and no one can change that. J

Me:

#3) ok so Education wise, what are you doing? Even if modeling doesn't work out, what's your "back up" plan? Or would you do each equally?

Fatima

#3) I’m currently pursuing my bachelors of education at the UTT teachers college in Corinth. I will like to do each equally if it allows. If modeling doesn’t work out, my plan is to become a person who can inspire our future generation but it just won’t be in fashion but teaching then. That’s why I’m doing my bachelors in education.

Me:

#4: “who is your role model? Which individual or Individuals have made you rise above the rest and made you say "if I want to be a model, I will be a model!"

Fatima

#4) Actually I don’t have a role model. I just love being me. I want to make my own style. Fashion inspires me a lot. To be looked upon by the younger generation coming up and become a role model to some inspires me.

Me:

#5: what are your plans for the future, with this article you've bound to get some response!"

Fatima

#5) Plans? I have none really other than what I mentioned above. I’m just a normal “hijabi” who has a passion for fashion and modeling, and I’m trying my luck because I believe that you don’t have to show your body to be beautiful and that’s not the meaning of modeling.

Me:

#6: what message do you have for the rest of these girls out there Muslim and NON Muslim? What words so you have that they should listen to?"

Fatima