Reality star turned model Bella Hadid has candidly confessed she went under the knife when she was but a teen as she feared she looked ‘ugly’ compared to her sister Gigi.
The 25-year-old star has her first taste of fame back in 2011 as an occasional star of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills where her mother, 58-year-old Yolanda, has a starring role.
However, she found the spotlight falling on her more prominently from 2014 after she was snapped up by IMG Models and set to work on catwalks and in advertising campaigns.
But behind the confident runway walks and sultry snaps, the star says she was battling self confidence and now admits she got a nose job when she was 14 – a decision she now regrets.
The half Dutch-half Palestinian star told Vogue magazine: “I wish I had kept the nose of my ancestors. I think I would have grown into it.”
Explaining that a nose job is the only cosmetic procedure she has had, she told the glossy magazine: “People think I fully f***ed with my face because of one picture of me as a teenager looking puffy. I'm pretty sure you don't look the same now as you did at 13, right?
“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.”
Bella went on to explain that criticism of her looks left her feeling insecure.
She said: “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.”
And she said she struggled to follow in the footsteps of her own reality star turned model big sister Gigi, 26.
She said: “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.”
She went on to explain a list of insecurities that she felt crippled by, including: ‘anxiety, depression, body-image issues, eating issues, who hates to be touched, who has intense social anxiety.’
She said she learned to be a “good actress” in order to hide this multitude of fears – but also says she feels proud that she never once cancelled any jobs as she continued to model through her personal struggles.
Elsewhere in the interview, she rounds on the cruelties of the fashion world, saying she was made to feel there was something “wrong” with her when she couldn’t fit into sample sizes for some designers.
And she argues there is not enough support in the industry for models to be told that they are, in fact, fine.
However, she says she has noted a change in attitudes over the course of her years in the business and thinks women are now speaking up to take a stand against sample size casting.
The full interview will be available in the April edition of Vogue, which will be on sale from March 29.
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