Yolanda Hadid, former Real Housewife and momager to supermodels Gigi and Bella Hadid, is one such star embracing the country lifestyle. After Bella moved to the Fort Worth area earlier this year to pursue competitive horseback riding, Yolanda quickly followed suit and now spends her days parading around in cowboy hats and chaps.
At least that’s how she portrays herself in her Architectural Digest home tour, which dropped last month to the delight of people who love to roast celebrity homes.
“My overall vision for this house was industrial, modern, enjoying life, put your boots up on the table, not worry about anything and just enjoy this beautiful Texas,” she says in the video’s entry. At this point, Hadid is standing in her living room, which features a concrete fireplace adorned with three longhorn skulls, floor to ceiling shelves filled with knick-knacks and Hermès throw pillows.
Her vision of what constitutes a Texas lifestyle is clear from the get-go.
“I just love the culture,” Hadid says in the video of her new life in Fort Worth. “The people are extraordinary, and we’ve built such a beautiful community. I just feel at home here.”
Viewers were a little more skeptical of Hadid’s Texan status. Comedian Dan Rosen’s takedown of the home has over 46,000 likes on Instagram.
“This is the house that I imagine every villain in the show Yellowstone lives in,” Rosen says. “Yes, this is Texas, but it feels kind of like Elon Musk’s Texas, if that makes sense.
YouTube viewers were somehow less impressed.
“This house looks like an industrial cowboy department store,” wrote one YouTube commenter.
“Another great example of a wealthy Californian cosplaying as what they think a Texan is,” another commenter wrote. “Cowboy hat and all.”
The kitchen, the next stop on Hadid’s home tour, displays her affinity for wood paneling, which is present on the counters, cabinets and walls. Industrial, bare-bulb lighting fixtures hang over the cabinets. Dishes and jars of food are displayed on open shelving units.
If this aesthetic sounds a little familiar to you, you’re not alone.
“This looks like a restaurant that charges $30 for a hamburger and the fries aren’t included,” one commenter said of the kitchen.
Hadid also showed off her massive pantry, which she describes as “industrial but colorful.” The room itself is almost entirely black and beige so we have to assume the color she speaks of refers to the food itself.
The pantry serves a secondary purpose as well.
“I didn’t know that in Texas you needed a tornado room,” she says while demonstrating how to use the deadbolt on the pantry door. “I’ve never been in a tornado.”
For the average person living in areas affected by tornados, a “tornado room” is either their bathtub or, if they’re lucky, a cellar. Texans on YouTube were quick to point this out, along with some flaws in Hadid’s tornado room.
“I was born and raised in Texas and still live here and have never heard of a tornado room,” one commenter wrote.
“As someone who’s always lived in a tornado state, having the pantry full of glass jars as your tornado room is pretty crazy,” wrote another.
The room that got the most hate, however, was Hadid’s mud room, which admittedly looks like the set for a '90s sitcom about girls who ride horses.
“This is where the cowboys arrive,” Hadid says, and no, we’re not sure who the cowboys are either. “You sit here, you take your boots off, you hang your hat.”
Though Hadid told AD viewers that she rides every day, critics aren’t buying her cowgirl credentials.
“That mud room looks more like an upscale boutique store for rich people who want to buy their first Western wear because they’re going to a resort that will have horses,” one person wrote.
“I feel like I should be offended on behalf of all Texans, ranchers and cowboys,” another comment reads.
Highlights of Hadid’s home include her back porch, complete with a fire pit and a stunning view of her property, and the beautiful repurposed wood throughout the house. However, even admirers of the house don’t agree with Hadid’s assessment that the place feels “homey.”
“This house is stunning but cold at the same time,” one commenter wrote.
“‘Super cozy’ 20-foot ceilings,” wrote another viewer with laughing emojis.
The response to Hadid’s home should serve as a lesson to the other rich and famous folks moving down here: Maybe you shouldn’t go around calling yourself a Texan if all you know about our massive, diverse state is the cowboy stuff.
We still enthusiastically welcome the Hadids to the area, though, and are crossing our fingers for a Real Housewives of Fort Worth.
