Gigi Hadid celebrates her 21st birthday with a week-long party

3 May 2016

By Fashion Quarterly

When you’re one of the biggest supermodels in the world, one day of birthday celebrations just isn’t enough.

To celebrate her milestone 21st birthday, Gigi Hadid kicked off a full week of festivities with an intimate family lunch. The model was joined by sisters Bella and Anwar and half-siblings Marielle and Alana, with Gigi capturing the moment on her Instagram, captioning the photo: “Birthday week begins.”

birthday week begins

A photo posted by Gigi Hadid (@gigihadid) on Apr 22, 2016 at 4:22pm PDT

One more, my beauties! @anwarhadid #cocoaflalo @mohamedhadid the birthday girl @gigihadid @lanzybear @bellahadid pc:@kellylikesit

A photo posted by Marielle Hadid 🌴🌴🌴 (@mariellemama) on Apr 22, 2016 at 11:01pm PDT

#GigiHadidSnapchat @gigihadid

A photo posted by Gigi Hadid❤️ (@gigihadidsnapchat) on Apr 22, 2016 at 3:56pm PDT

The celebrations continued over the weekend when the model partied it up with her formidable girl squad at new Las Vegas nightclub, Intrigue. She was joined by her mum, Yolanda Foster, as well as two dozen other friends including Taylor Swift, Lily Aldridge, Kendall Jenner, Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian and girl band Haim.

This is what you came for. @gigihadid @lilyaldridge

A photo posted by Taylor Swift (@taylorswift) on Apr 29, 2016 at 1:25am PDT

We go fast with the game we play. @haimtheband @lilyaldridge

A photo posted by Taylor Swift (@taylorswift) on Apr 29, 2016 at 1:31am PDT

According to sources, boyfriend Zayn Malik was a no show – however reports suggest Zayn’s track Pillowtalk was played by the club DJ as Gigi blew out her candles. Awwww!