While being a supermodel has its advantages, Bella Hadid discusses the drawbacks, including her difficulties with mental health. The runway sensation is no stranger to the limelight, but with it comes unbridled criticism from strangers.
“In the previous year, it was incredibly essential for me to realize that even if people talk about my style, if they like it or if they don’t, it doesn’t matter, because it’s my style,” she said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. When I get out of bed in the morning, I ask myself, “Does this make me happy?” “Do I look good and feel comfortable in this?”
The 25-year-old admitted that she was “in such a weird place emotionally” and that getting out of the house and putting an outfit together was torturous for her “particularly with the fear of [photographers] being outside and all of that.” Last October, Hadid uploaded a series of emotional photos while going through “very melancholy spells,” which sparked a larger discourse about mental health.
“I’d simply be in agonizing and devastating mental and physical pain, and I didn’t know why,” she stated. That was done over the course of three years to ensure that anyone who was feeling down realized it was OK to feel down.”
While mental health has previously been a taboo subject, it is comforting to know that no one goes through life alone.
