Bella Hadid has done a lengthy interview with Vogue and it is a very interesting look into her life. Especially, if you suffer from anxiety and depression.
Bella: “I was the uglier sister. I was the brunette. I wasn’t as cool as Gigi, not as outgoing. That’s really what people said about me. And unfortunately when you get told things so many times, you do just believe it. I always ask myself, how did a girl with incredible insecurities, anxiety, depression, body-image issues, eating issues, who hates to be touched, who has intense social anxiety—what was I doing getting into this business? But over the years I became a good actress. I put on a very smiley face, or a very strong face. I always felt like I had something to prove. People can say anything about how I look, about how I talk, about how I act. But in seven years I never missed a job, canceled a job, was late to a job. No one can ever say that I don’t work my ass off.”
Vogue: Bella says that on account of multiple childhood traumas, about which she prefers to say no more, she does not remember broad swaths of her early years. She finds this somewhat embarrassing.
Sadly she is still going to quack doctors. Believes in her “Lyme Disease” etc.
She is also here to visit the clinic of Daniel Amen, M.D., a psychiatrist who uses SPECT scans to gauge the degree of blood flow in certain regions of the brain. He has told her, based on previous scans, that her frontal lobe has been asleep for the last eight years. Better blood flow, she hopes, will mean less brain fog. (Amen is a polarizing figure in the field of psychiatry, having built his business around interventions that some say lack a robust, peer-reviewed evidence base.)
Sounds like Yolanda made her get a nosejob at 14!
When Bella was 14, she had a nose job. It’s a decision she regrets. “I wish I had kept the nose of my ancestors,” she says. “I think I would have grown into it.”I have never used filler. Let’s just put an end to that. I have no issue with it, but it’s not for me. Whoever thinks I’ve gotten my eyes lifted or whatever it’s called—it’s face tape! The oldest trick in the book. I’ve had this impostor syndrome where people made me feel like I didn’t deserve any of this. People always have something to say, but what I have to say is, I’ve always been misunderstood in my industry and by the people around me.”
For much of last year, Bella had been feeling better. And then, on the first morning of New York Fashion Week last September, she woke up and began to cry before her eyes even opened. She had already been working 15 days straight and, by her estimate, 350 days a year for the past seven years, and on that day she had eight fittings and three shows. For the first time in her career, she backed out of her commitments. And once again, people had things to say.
“To have to wake up every morning with this brain—it’s not cute,” she says, giving her skull a knock-knock. “So now everything that I do in my personal life is literally to make sure that my mental state stays above water. Fashion can make you or break you. And if it makes you, you have to make a conscious effort every day for it not to break you. There’s always a bit of grief in love.”
I can only imagine what went on under the care of Yolanda lemons.
Brave woman to speak and start to dissect her stuff. Wealth and privilege don’t mean happiness.
Do you remember that hateful letter she got from Yolanda after her DUi? and how she wouldnt let the girls eat anything but 2 almonds?
Yolanda is disgusting.
Yes, that was the first time we learned how much Bella was struggling. Yolanda had two daughters, Gigi and Not Gigi.
Poor thing endured being called Not Gigi in the press and seems to take after her Mama in being sickly and posting selfies of whack treatments. Meanwhile I’m getting divorced and moving into a shed, so it’s hard for me to feel sorrow for moneyed housewives spawn.
Not moving into a shed! There have to be better options! And hopefully the divorce will give you more freedom and happiness.
I have 2 friends who have had Lyme, no bueno. Too bad she still listens to Yolanda and isn’t seeing the proper Drs. I can imagine the enormous pressure being the younger, not as typically pretty (I think they’re both gorgeous). I’m happy she’s speaking her truth.
Mo money mo problems. 💜
Gigi was cute and now is just okay but Bella’s look is classic and she will have a much longer shelf life imo. Love her “new” nose!
I agree with you Beets. Gigi is pretty, but she has a forgettable face (IMO). Bella is very strikingly beautiful. I can picture her having PTSD in a sense from her upbringing. Yolanda telling Gigi not to eat birthday cake, having them starving, eating almonds (allegedly), the whole do they or don’t they have Lyme disease. Yolanda had this whole thing about David Foster being her king. Yes, a woman should respect her husband, but it just felt weird and archaic. I would imagine Bella does have lots of issues. It’s sad.
She is strikingly beautiful.
I have always thought she is the more gorgeous of the two girls. I can’t imagine growing up with Yoyo as a mother. It was obvious on RHOBH that Gigi was the favorite.
I’m impressed that she is using her fake and platform to bring reality to young women. That even who they see as perfect on TV or in a magazine is human which includes anxious, low self esteem and poor health regardless of her financial or social status. Her mom could learn a lot from her.
I admire her courage and the honesty she felt comfortable giving. And I think her message of taking care of yourself is a priority because people are going to say stupid stuff and judge regardless. Know who you are. I’m hoping she’ll get there. I think her brain fog will lift when she can establish healthy boundaries with her biggest critic (a/k/a mom)
I meant FAME not FAKE 🙄
I applaud her for speaking about what she is going through, however everytime she post a photo that says look at how hot i am, look at my yacht life, she is trying to one up ordinary girls who aren’t stick thin with fantasy (on the outside) lives. she is perpetuating the myth. I wish social media was made illegal. It’s crushing our kids.
Why do models and celebrities insist on claiming they have had no work done when it is apparent to anyone who has eyes.
First her attempt to recieve sympathy about her first rhinoplasty, what about her second? There’s plenty of photographs that show her with her first nose job then her second.
Face tape is the reason for her cat eyes? So according to her it must be always on during public events even when her hair is completely pulled back? Never detectable?
The general consensus among plastic surgeons is that she has had many procedures. Here is the list:
Cheeks: Buccal fat removal- hollows out the bottom part of face, to enhance cheekbones and slim face. Jaw filler: a treatment that is popular to make the jawline appear sharper and more well-defined and make the jawline appear sharper and more well-defined, Jawline slimming: A treatment with botulinum toxin that makes the face slimmer by relaxing the masseter muscles. Lip filler: increased overall pout, especially top lip, compare images going back in time. Chin filler: to add length to the face and projection to the side profile. 6) Temple filler: a not-yet very well-known treatment to lift and add volume. Many faces that have been sculpted with fillers in the middle and lower third need also more volume to the upper face for a more harmonized outcome. Brow lift: Botox is used to improve the arch of the brows by relaxing and smoothing the muscles around the eyes.
I believe Bella, not crap you found on the Internet. I find her to be very likable.
Oh come on hun. I too like to believe people at face value, but not when its clearly a whole new face! Face tape? So she wears it 24/7? Because even when she’s photographed candidly in sweats running errands she has the same new face.
I believe everything else though.
Much respect to Bella! The fashion industry combined with a mother like Yolanda … and lots of money … definitely enough to crush one’s soul. Reminds me of Rinna’s daughters. Both reprehensible women IMO.
I think Bella is more beautiful and kinder, and so very brave. I was going to urge you all to read the full article if you have the time. It’s lengthy but inspiring.
I realized as I was commenting I forgot to link to Vogue. It was an oversight. I have added the link to the end of my post. I highly recommend it.
i’ll buy the magazine and read it then. It sounds like she went pretty deep, so Id rather read it slowly and read it for understanding, rather than trying to rush and not understand what she;s trying to communicate. Thank you for the tip — I don’t usually read Vogue.
I have a serious question – please don’t give me shit. I have an autoimmune/other issue for past 10 years about I don’t complain about it, not even sure what it is, and was told it was lupus as a result of ANA tests and symptoms. Eventually a doc said fibromyalgia. I don’t even fricking know because there is not much you can do about it and I just deal with it. Some days better than others and I have a job I can work hours around or schedule heavier vs. lighter loads. As a single parent, I trudge through. So. I never really questioned Yo’s Lyme diagnosis because of own issues with “whatever” and I know a few people who have long term Lyme who did not catch it in time. If they did not have Lyme, they had something because they were not attention seekers and I could see the changes over time.
Back to Yo. I never really liked her or disliked her, and found some of her beliefs, statements or sense self importance annoying. But so many big assholes in the franchises eclipsed her in my view.
My big question is even if she is irritating or out of touch, how can we say her Lyme is manufactured? Lots of autoimmune diseases can have better/worse days or cycles. She didn’t look well. She just had the money to be sick comfortably. Sick on a nice boat rather than stuck in a bed for example. She wasn’t doing as much as she usually does. Laying on a boat doesn’t take a ton of effort. I’m trying to understand why some people think she is faking an illness. Maybe it’s not Lyme but something similar. It seems like a lot of trouble to get explants and endless treatments for something fake. Many people with chronic illnesses can become more functional over time.
I wouldn’t say someone is faking it because it is part of the story line or because I didn’t like them. I guess I’m trying to understand why TT or anyone thinks this is the case. (Sincerely curious.) Did I miss something?
Having said that, I think the focus on unrealistic physical beauty has been damaging for daughters and I would not be surprised if the accusations against Z were part of her hysteria. Remember when it was previewed that Ken roughly grabbed her and it was totally totally overstated into something it was not?
The other thing I question is her kid’s seem to adore her, which should speak well of her in some regard.
Again -not trying to argue – just curious. What am I missing?
I also wonder why children are allowed on RH. It is extremely damaging to be used as a storyline in your developing years.
First of all I am not going to give you shit at all. I am sorry you have some sort of unidentified chronic condition. I do too. Clearly no one knows what it is. I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia in my twenties or thirties. My sister was visiting me in Saint Simons and I was having trouble walking, something that has come and gone over my life since then. The doctor wanted sell me giant rubber bands and other expensive shit. My sister picked the doctor as I was paying I saw his card and it said, “Fibromyalgia Specialist” I do not doubt that you suffer from some sort of chronic illness. I just think doctor’s have made up categories for women with issues like ours.
IN MY OPINION, “Fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, etc are all just catch alls for “some chronic issue happening with women that we don’t know anything about.” It doesn’t help me to be able to say I have this or that when they really just don’t do anything for you after that. In my opinion, the medical community doesn’t care about what is happening to us. So that is that part. I am in no way trying to lesson what you are living with. I totally get it. I am infuriated that women’s health issues are not taken more seriously.
As for Yolanda and all the kids she ascribes Lyme to, I firmly believe she had Munchhausen. I have posted about this at length. Also, she had old leaky implants and seemed to be much better than that.
Basically Lyme disease is a real an terrible illness. However, CHRONIC LYME is a made up thing. And you may have noticed that Yolanda had a miraculous recovery once she got her prenup overturned again and took David to the cleaners.
https://tamaratattles.com/2015/12/03/a-completely-hypothetical-intellectual-discussion-with-psylocke/
https://tamaratattles.com/?s=Chronic+Lyme+
The link right above is a lot of posts from 2015 where I detail and debunk using medical sources that Chronic Lyme is not a thing. And again, Yolanda made a miraculous recovery after being able to over throw her prenup with David because of a California law about divorcing someone who is mentally incapacitated.
It was the second time she had done that.
Also, this one is quite interesting. https://tamaratattles.com/2016/02/24/yolanda-foster-officially-sickens-me/
Thank you, I will read! I agree it’s lumped under some umbrella they don’t have time or inclination to study. That’s why I gave up trying and I don’t have money for alternative quackery. NOT saying alternative modalities are all bullshit BUT they are expensive and uncovered by insurance. And some are bullshit but I guess you feel like you are “doing something.” I admit there were/are times I’m so desperate I think I would resort to paying money I don’t have to a shamanic healer, as is the trend of rich people. But alas – unlike Yolanda, I am a skeptic. It would be fun to have the cash to throw all kinds of jello to the wall and see if one sticks. I didn’t even think that maybe her implants caused some kind of malaise and maybe that’s why she improved later. So many have had issues with implants and feel better after removal. I wish I had implants I could remove.
I guess prenuos are not as ironclad as I thought. She’s good. Hard to feel too bad for Mo for some reason and for the life of me, can’t figure out why David would get married 5 times. You’d think he’s do the math at some point and just donate potential alimony to frigging anything else. Like the What the F#$& is Fibromyalgia fund.
I understand and get so riled up over the lack of health care or concern for women. Let’s tell you it’s all in your head or just deal with it while we develop erection pills and advance treatments and cures for prostate cancer because God forbid a man’s penis doesn’t work! Men had a blood test for early detection covered by insurance immediately but women had to pay for breast cancer screening blood tests out of pocket.
I have Lupus and am a single mom. My son has autism. My old boss, very wealthy, is on the board of an organization that supports research on the long term effects of having HAD Lyme disease (not chronic coming back because your ex wants a divorce) they have done studies about the correlation of having Lyme while pregnant and children with autism. In all the research he has raised funds for, chronic Lyme is not on the list. Having had Lyme, combined with an underlying auto immune disease, can have long term side effects (kind of a spectrum of symptoms like autism) but it’s the after effects and your general health condition.
Lyme disease can be debilitating while you have it but it isn’t how Yolanda depicted. And, just like autism, there are organizations who make money off of selling a “cure”. And people like Jenny McCarthy will “cure” her son for fame but sell it in a package that makes the rest of us parents feel less than because we aren’t rich enough to afford different therapies that help lessen the different aspects and symptoms.
Sorry for the rant but if I had the cure for any of these issues, I’d be handing it out for free regardless of my financial situation.
I so understand. My son is on the spectrum as well. There is not a lot out there.
What board certified physician would perform a rhinoplasty on a 14 year girl if it was not a medically necessary surgery?
Excellent question.
“Medically necessary” = Deviated Septum in the world of rhinoplasty.
If you have enough money I’m sure you could convince a surgeon to do it at 14.
Sigh. For years, Bella claimed she had never had rhinoplasy. She lied. And now we are expect to believe her statements now about what she hasn’t had done.
And multiple plastic surgeons have stated what she has done, please do your research. Just look at her face over time, did the major changes happen by magic? And as she claims, face tape?