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Model Gigi Hadid must be looking forward to September: It’ll mark the one year birthday of her daughter. But until then, Hadid shared a “bit of August” on Instagram, with photos of her in the pool, in workout gear, holding flowers, picking peppers, seeing horses and more. How does the relatively new mom manage to do it all while looking so good? Read on to see 5 ways Gigi Hadid stays in shape and the photos that prove they work—and to get beach-ready yourself, don't miss these essential 30 Best-Ever Celebrity Bikini Photos!

1. She Grew Up Athletic

"Being an athlete was such a big part of me being proud of myself and my skin," Hadid told ELLE. "My coaches didn't care about how I looked, they cared about me because I was a good teammate, a good friend, and those were the things that helped me feel strong." Indeed she wasn’t always a model. “I stopped because I was a really competitive horseback rider and a club volleyball player,” she said. “I went to Junior Olympic qualifiers for volleyball. So, I kind of stopped modeling. I just wanted to have a normal childhood and go to high school,” she said, according to Vanity Fair.

2. This is Her Easy Go-Go

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“At home I love scrambled eggs and toast; it's just an easy go-to,” Hadid told Harper’s Bazaar. "Eggs are a complete protein meaning they contain all the amino acids the body needs to build and repair body tissues," Jamie Feit, MS, RD and expert at Testing.com, tells our sister site Eat This, Not That!. "Eggs contain fat-soluble vitamins, B vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants." ETNT! adds: “Protein feeds the muscles you are trying to build from your workout routine, which in return creates a faster metabolism and helps you lose weight, according to a study published by the International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism. The amino acids in the egg can help provide your body with the protein it needs to build that muscle you desire!”

3. She’s Been Really Into Boxing

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“When I walk in [to Gotham Gym], it’s like my big brothers. They don’t care about me as a model or what my body looks like. They care that I give a good punch, and that’s how I want to be judged in my athletic space, because that’s what I find pride in,” Hadid said to Vogue. “I need to have a sport that wakes me up and that I can get better at, and boxing does that for me,” Hadid said.

4. She Takes a Holistic Approach to Wellness

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"For me, I celebrate strength, not only the physical but mental and social," Hadid said at a Reebok event once. "You have to nourish all parts of yourself." Consider integrative care for yourself. “Integrative medicine can help people with cancer, persistent pain, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia and many other conditions better manage their symptoms and improve their quality of life by reducing fatigue, pain and anxiety,” says the Mayo Clinic. “Examples of common practices include:

• Acupuncture
• Animal-assisted therapy
• Aromatherapy
• Dietary supplements
• Massage therapy
• Music therapy
• Meditation”

5. This is Her Biggest Thing

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"My biggest thing is just eat healthy and work out," Hadid has said, according to Popsugar. "Yeah, I think the biggest thing I always say is eat clean to stay fit, and then have a cheat day to stay sane."

Gigi Hadid is brushing off her Cayman Islands arrest in her bikini. The supermodel set a thirst trap for her followers in one of her latest social media posts, posing in a few tiny bathing suits while vacationing with friends. “All’s well that ends well,” she captioned the Instagram post, seemingly responding to her arrest for illegally importing marijuana and the instruments to smoke it with. How does she stay so fit? Read on to see 5 ways Gigi Hadid stays in shape and the photos that prove they work.

1. She Celebrates “Body Neutrality””

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Gigi used to go to extremes with dieting but now has a more relaxed approach. “When I started out, I was a heavily trained volleyball player, and I had a certain body type from that,” Hadid told the outlet. “At that time, fashion hadn’t started to get into a more inclusive body-image conversation,” she told The Sunday Times. “I was probably harder on my body than I should have been. I wasn’t starving myself, but I was very routined. Since then, I’ve got into this idea of body neutrality. I love my body for what it has done, but I’m not obsessed with it.”

2. She Cooks

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Gigi loves to cook – especially with her daughter. “Every day, we're cooking in the house together. Even if it's just her and I, she will get up on her little step-up stool and help me mix, or we do banana bread. Especially in the winter, when I'm like, ‘OK, what can we do that's warm?’ It's a lot of, ‘OK, mash these bananas,’ and help her do the stuff that's exciting to her. But she'll get to a point where she's like, ‘OK, mama, you finish that. I'm going to do Play-Doh. I'll sit over here in my highchair and do Play-Doh and you cook.’ But it's still fun times together and we have the funniest conversations when it's just me cooking and her doing some craft and I love even when it's just us,” she told InStyle.

3. Her Lifestyle Is Active

Gigi and her daughter “walk a lot,” she told The WSJ. “With lifting her and running around all day and going to the park, I get moving.” Physical activity is anything that gets your body moving. Each week adults need 150 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity and 2 days of muscle-strengthening activity, according to the current Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans.

4. She Goes to Therapy

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Gigi, along with her sister Bella, are advocates of therapy. “There are different things that we probably both deal with on different sides, but there’s always going to be something that comes together,” she told Elle. “Setting boundaries, even if that’s with the paparazzi—going over and saying, ‘Hey, what’s up? I know we’ve seen each other from across the street for five years, but when I’m with my kid, please don’t point the camera this way.’ Sometimes you have to be assertive, and that doesn’t mean that it’s rude. It’s setting a boundary.”

5. She Rests

Gigi, who suffers from the autoimmune disorder Hashimoto’s disease, which impacts her thyroid and causes fatigue, makes sure to rest. “I’m usually taking a nap during my lunch breaks, and I will eat my lunch when I’m retouching hair and makeup after. It’s just something that I’ve had to deal with over the years. Sometimes it’s better than other times,” she told Elle. “One of the boundaries I have is that I have to tell my team when I need rest. They’ve always been understanding and encouraging of that, and then besides that, I think I’ve just learned to make it work for me, and what helps me get through the day and do my best.”