Years After Battle With Chronic Disease, Bella Hadid Returns Back To Equestrian

Bella Hadid is a well-known name in the fashion world. The supermodel made a successful career in modeling and charmed millions through her breathtaking ramp walks. But the model’s love and passion reside in something that she had to sacrifice due to a chronic disease.

Hadid has always been passionate about the equestrian sport. She grew up among horses and pursued her equestrian career by setting big goals for herself. But, all that changed due to her disease, and she felt heartbroken. Now, she has finally recovered after a long battle and the first thing she did was to return to horse riding. In a social media post, she shared her riding, kissing the horse and happiness to be doing the thing she loved the most again.

Bella Hadid enjoys being an equestrian again

In an Instagram post, Bella Hadid shared her pics of her visit to an equestrian club, Wellington International, in Wellington, Florida. Her millions of fans were able to look and enjoy her love and care for the four-legged stock through short clips and pics shared in the post. In the caption of the post, the supermodel said, “Thank you to all the great trainers and people who allowed me to ride their incredible horses“. She further wrote, “And my Lucy, Blue, Ami. I love these animals“.

In the first clip, she can be seen kissing the horse with affection. The second picture shows the supermodel jumping a bar on a horse wearing full black equestrian attire. In another picture, Bella is hugging and caring for the horse with one hand and holding his bait in the other. Another picture shows her riding along the side track with a companion. In one picture, Hadid is wearing white equestrian attire and kissing the horse at the stables while in the last post, she can be returning from her ride caring for and patting the horse in between. The post got more than a million likes and seems her well-wishers liked her return to the sport where she one’s dreamed of taking part in the Olympics.

Bella Hadid’s Olympic dream

Bella Hadid’s family lived on a ranch for ten years. Her interest and love for riding came from her mom, who knew all about horses. She started riding at the age of three and since then she has taken an active part in the sport. Soon she had enough experience in the sport and even planned to take part in the Rio Olympics in 2016. Hadid also revealed her plan in an interview and compared riding to yoga.

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According to her, both had the same effect, keeping the ego aside and concentrating on making the horse do what you want. But in 2016, before the Olympics, her mother shared about her suffering from chronic Lyme disease due to which she had to give up her dream and equestrian career. Bella Hadid’s return to the equestrian club shows that she is enjoying her riding again, which indicates that she is healthy once more.

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