Bella Hadid says her mental health issues are to blame for her not using a personal stylist “in a long time.”
speaking to WSJ MagazineThe 25-year-old supermodel revealed she was “in such a weird place mentally” that it was really hard for her “to get out of the house and put an outfit together, especially with the anxiety of [photographers] being outside and all that.”
“In the last year, it was very important for me to learn that even if people talk about my style or if they like it or not, it doesn’t matter, because it’s my style,” he continued. “When I leave the house in the morning, what I think is: Does this make me happy? Do I feel good in this and am I comfortable?
Victoria’s Secret model formerly talked about his mental health via Instagram last year, revealing that she has “suffered from extreme depression and anxiety” for most of her teenage and adult life.
“My social anxiety was something that slowly came over me as I reached my early twenties,” she wrote at the time. “It made it harder for me to go out without having a drink to calm my nerves, which made me not want to go out at all, so I was hibernating between jobs.”
He added: “With a life that is constantly pushing a social regimen, as well as working 13 hours a day, every day, I knew this was not a sustainable life for me.”
Hadid also explained to WSJ why she decided last November posts a series of selfies of herself crying.
“I would have really depressive episodes and my mom or my doctor would ask me how I was doing and instead of having to text back, I would just send them a picture,” she said. “It was the easiest thing for me at the time because I could never explain how I felt.”
“I would just be in excruciating and debilitating mental and physical pain, and I didn’t know why. That was for the last three years,” she revealed, adding that when she posted the photos, it was “to make sure anyone who felt that way knew that it was okay for her to feel that way.”
Hadid told the outlet that she hopes her followers know that while things “look so beautiful” on Instagram, “at the end of the day, we’re all cut from the same cloth.”
“I felt it was good for me to be able to speak my truth,” he explained. “And at some point I couldn’t post nice, pretty pictures anymore. I got over it.
Hadid confessed to having good days and bad days, but said she has no regrets about how much she has shared on social media.
“Walking outside, being able to remember that there are so many people who are going through things and have similar patterns to me, it makes me feel better,” she said. “I don’t know if that’s not what people want on Instagram, and that’s fine. I don’t have to be on Instagram forever. I feel like real is the new real, and that’s what’s important to me.”
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