JEDDAH 18-year-old Taleedah Tamer from Saudi Arabia is about to be known inhistory as Saudi Arabia’s first supermodel after she walks down the ramp atParis Haute Couture Fashion Week.link#_>
Belonging to the city of Jeddah, Taleedah bagged her first modellingproject as she landed on the cover of an international magazine of Harper’sBazaar Arabia recently.
Taleedah, who has a Saudi Arabian father and Italian mother, hopes toinspire girls in the kingdom to become models too.
“When I first started modelling I never thought that I’d be the “firstSaudi model”, but it seems like the perfect time for the industry to openup,” she said.
Taleedah added, “I’m representing Saudi women who are beautiful, strongwomen and I just want to be able to represent them in the right way.”