Haifa Wehbe was born in Mahrouna, a small Shiite farming town in Southern Lebanon. Her father was Lebanese and her mother Egyptian. She grew up listening to jazz and R&B. She began to work as a model at a young age and won the title of Miss South Lebanon at the age of sixteen. Wehbe won an ancillary title at the Miss Lebanon competition, which she had to relinquish when it was discovered that she had already been married, disqualifying her. She also made a name for herself when she starred in a music video clip for the singer George Wassouf. By 1996, she had appeared on over a hundred magazine covers.
Wehbe is married to Ahmed Abu Hashima (b. 1975) and is currently living in Egypt with him.
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