Supermodel Bella Hadid regrets undergoing cosmetic surgery
Supermodel Bella Hadid has confessed that she regrets having a nose job when she was a teenager.
On the cover of the April issue of American Vogue, the supermodel said she wishes she hadn't gone under the knife at age 14.
"I wish I had kept the nose of my ancestors," she said. "I think she would have turned me into that."
Hadid has been accused of having had many other procedures, the magazine wrote, but the 25-year-old denies this.
"People always have something to say, but what I have to say is that I have always been misunderstood in my industry and by the people around me."
Hadid opened up about her mental health in an Instagram post in November of last year. Alongside a series of tearful selfies, she wrote, "I've had enough nervous breakdowns and burnout to know this: If you work hard enough on yourself, spending time alone to understand your traumas, triggers, joys and routines, you'll always you will be able to understand or learn more about your own pain and how to manage it.”
The new Vogue interview details the "exhaustion" Hadid says she experienced in the past year, which led to a treatment program that included medication and talk therapy. "There were people online saying, 'You live this amazing life,'" she said. So how can I complain? I always felt like I had no right to complain, which meant I had no right to get help, which was my first problem."
While she alludes to "multiple childhood traumas," it's clear the pressures of working in the fashion industry have taken their toll.
Bella Hadid walks the runway during the Isabel Marant Fall-Winter 2022 show in Paris. Credit: Peter White/Getty Images
"I've had girls on my lap crying at me at four in the morning, still trying out for a show when they have to be on another show at 7am," he said. "Completely destroyed, hair burnt, haven't eaten anything, exhausted to the point where they're shaking."
Hadid acknowledges that progress has been made in recent years, but much remains to be done, as "fashion can make or break."
She told Vogue: "Finally, girls are standing on sample sizes, but when I started seven years ago, I couldn't fit in at Saint Laurent. And I remember a stylist talking about my weight because he couldn't zip me up.
"Looking back, I think so, because a Saint Laurent sample size from the runway just wasn't a true size for anyone. But then you think there's something wrong with you, and no one around you says, no, no, you're fine, don't worry, it's a small size."
Hadid, the daughter of real estate developer Mohamed Hadid and "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" alum Yolanda Hadid, also spoke of unfavorable comparisons to her sister, fellow model Gigi Hadid.
“I was the ugliest sister. I was the brunette. She wasn't as cool as Gigi, or as outgoing," she said. "And unfortunately when you're told things so many times, you just believe it. I always ask myself, how does a girl with incredible insecurities, anxiety, depression, body image issues, eating issues, who hates being touched, who has intense social anxiety – what was she doing to get into this business? But over the years I became a good actress.
