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- Bella Hadid returned to the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show on Oct. 15 rocking racy red lingerie and bright blonde hair
- The model joined her sister Gigi Hadid and other familiar faces on the runway following her recent hospitalization for Lyme disease
- Hadid made her debut in the show in 2016 but began working with the brand in 2015
Bella Hadid is back on the Victoria’s Secret runway — this time as a blonde!
On Wednesday, Oct. 15, the supermodel, 29, was among the returning faces walking the 2025 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show in Brooklyn, N.Y. — and her comeback was as good as it gets.
While she strutted the runway in sexy hot red ensemble her bright blonde hair also made a big impact. Her look was made complete with a red bra and lacy underwear with a center cut-out that included a matching garter connected to sultry sheer red tights. She added a romantic touch to her all-red ensemble with a satin robe draped around her elbows, topping off her look with red strapped stilettos and ’90s glam.
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Hadid’s appearance comes one month after her hospitalization for Lyme disease, which she was diagnosed with at 16. At the time, her mom, Yolanda Hadid, shared an Instagram update with photos of her daughter on a hospital bed and connected to tubes.
“As you will understand, watching my Bella struggle in silence has cut the deepest core of hopelessness inside me,” the former Bravo star wrote.
She continued: “I admire your bravery and your willingness to keep fighting for health despite the failing protocols and countless setbacks you have faced. There simply aren’t words big enough for the darkness, the pain, and the unknown hell you’ve lived through since your diagnosis in 2013. You didn’t really live, you learned how to exist inside the jail of your own paralyzed brain.”
Not long after, Hadid returned to the runway for the Saint Laurent Spring/Summer 2025 show during Paris Fashion Week. “Saint Laurent under the Eiffel Tower. Dreaming. I love you dearly,” she wrote on Instagram.
In between her modeling gigs, Hadid also celebrated her 29th birthday on Oct. 9, with her sister Gigi calling her the family’s “walking heart” with a series of throwback photos posted in tribute of the occasion.
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Hadid made her debut in the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show in 2016 in Paris. That year, she took the stage in a gray corset look while The Weeknd, with whom she was in an on-again, off-again relationship, performed. For her last appearance in 2024, she rocked a red-hot lingerie ensemble complete with a showstopping cape.
She began working with Victoria’s Secret in 2015 when she appeared in the brand’s PINK holiday campaign. She reunited with the company following the lingerie giant’s revamp in 2021, starring in its holiday campaign and also became the brand’s VS Collective Member.
