Gigi Hadid Posted a Bunch of String Bikini Pics and Showed Off a New Dragon Tattoo

Gigi Hadid is on a girls’ trip vacation and letting the bikini photos from paradise speak for themselves. The model posted two Instagram grid posts featuring her in two different two-pieces. Her first featured her in a gorgeous pink print bikini. In the second carousel, she showed off a giant dragon tattoo on her leg. She didn’t specify whether it’s temporary or permanent but did allude to it in her “mornin! ????” caption:

On her Instagram Story, she also noted the ink, writing, “Am I in my girl w a dragon tattoo era ?!”

The second bikini shot Hadid shared showed her in a lime green bikini with a bandeau top, balancing on a pool noodle under water. “What designer makes this noodle? Wrong answers only,” she wrote.

She also shared a third shot on her Instagram Story posted by her friend Leah McCarthy, in which the two of them posed in two-pieces. Hadid wore a yellow string bikini in contrast to McCarthy’s darker cheetah print one.

Snapshots of Hadid’s personal life like this are rarer, with the model opting to share carousels in retrospect every now and then on Instagram.

Hadid spoke to ELLE earlier this year about hoping to show more of who she is to the world beyond being a model. “What does the world not know about me? I don’t know. I’m getting emotional [thinking about it],” she started. “I think that I’m someone who you have to be in front of to experience. It’s not hard. This isn’t a complaint. It’s more that in my job, you see a lot of snapshots.” She paused, wiping away a tear and dismissed the writer’s apology for asking. “No, it’s fine. Apparently, I needed to say it. There are a lot of snapshots and really quick moments where, again, there’s not a lot of context given.”

She also revealed one of her hidden traits: her humor. “People say I’m funny. I don’t know, but I think that the more time I’m given, then the more I’m able to be goofy,” she said.

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Alyssa Bailey is the senior news and strategy editor at ELLE.com, where she oversees coverage of celebrities and royals (particularly Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton). She previously held positions at InStyle and Cosmopolitan. When she’s not working, she loves running around Central Park, making people take #ootd pics of her, and exploring New York City.