After her father was killed in Kabul by the Taliban and shortly thereafter her elder brother disappeared, Hamidi fled Afghanistan in 2001 with her mother and sisters.
In December she was crowned Miss Diamond 2011 after a unanimous decision of the jury, which never happened before in the 29 years this price is being awarded.
[6] In 2012 she wins the Belgian preselection of the Miss Earth pageant and goes to Manila to represent Belgium.
[10] In 2014 she was planning to create a movie from her bookbestseller 'Van hel tot hemel' (in Belgium) which did not materialise as such as yet.
[15] In 2013, Madina wrote a book 'Van hel tot hemel' (From hell to heaven),[16] a tale of all her trials and tribulations.
While visiting the uncle who had helped them flee from Afghanistan, she was courted by a neighbour boy, who seemed very sympathetic.
She called an Iranian friend, Abbas Fasaei, who helped her and who encouraged her to contend in more pageants, and even subscribed her for singing and acting lessons at a drama school.