Discover Yolanda Hadid’s spectacular Texas Refuge

Early in their relationship, Yolanda Hadid’s fiancé, Joseph Jingoli, took her on a date to a horse show in Fort Worth, Texas. The reality star and the construction company CEO met in Pennsylvania, where Hadid bought a ranch and moved in 2017 after raising her children — models Gigi and Bella Hadid and actor/producer Anwar Hadid — in the Los Angeles area. Both were horse lovers, but Hadid, who started riding as a child in the Netherlands, was more familiar with the English equestrian scene than the Western cutting horse scene that Jingoli was drawn to. “That trip was really my introduction to Texas,” Hadid says. “We went straight to Fort Worth, where there was this huge horse show with hundreds and hundreds of real, authentic cowboys. It was like being in a Western movie.”

As their relationship blossomed, the couple returned to the area often, and Hadid fell in love with Texas’ horse culture, particularly the world of cutting horses, which are bred to separate cattle from a herd. “If you know how to ride horses, you can ride any horse, but the culture around it is very different. It’s a down-to-earth (scene) — that’s what I loved,” says Hadid, who will appear as a judge on the upcoming season of Holland’s next top model.

Hadid and Jingoli keep horses at a stable 10 minutes from their home. “It’s very easy: when we wake up, we go straight there and train.”

Eventually, Hadid and Jingoli realized it was time to make a home in the Lone Star State, and they found the perfect wooded lot overlooking a river. When it came to building their retreat, this wasn’t Hadid’s first rodeo: Fans of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Hadid, the creator of the Malibu mansion she lived in during the show, will remember designing, down to the unique walk-in refrigerator that’s gained a fair amount of internet notoriety over the years. This time around, Hadid took her ideas and enlisted contractor S&B Construction to bring her drawings to life. The result is a horseshoe-shaped, one-story abode with a stone exterior and an industrial-modern interior that still feels connected to nature. The home is filled with ideas dreamed up by Hadid and executed by local makers and artisans—or, in the case of the opulent primary cabinets, Italian furniture brand Molteni&C. Reclaimed wood paneling from Southwest Log Homes is found in nearly every room, and nods to Hadid’s love of horses abound.