Bella Hadid continued making headlines at Paris Fashion Week by walking in Stella McCartney’s spring/summer 2023 show wearing a sheer nude studded jumpsuit. The model strolled down the runway wearing her dark hair down in soft waves with a nude lip. Her eyebrows were bleached.
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That wasn’t Hadid’s only look within the show, either. She also modeled a black vest with low-rise cut-out black pants.
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Hadid spoke to i-D magazine in September about growing up with anxiety and her mental health journey. “Growing up, I assumed it was normal that I had this chronic anxiety and this disassociation, crying each day and never knowing who I used to be,” she said. “Whether it was eating disorders or smoking a pack of Marlboros for the reason that age of fourteen, I’m like, ‘Oh, that is what all of the youngsters are doing.’ I spotted that perhaps that was me attempting to determine why I felt that way. And in point of fact, all I needed was therapy.”
She added that it hasn’t been easy being in the style industry together with her mental health struggles, but after publicly speaking about how she’s been feeling on social media, things have gotten higher. She credited models Karen Elson and Carolyn Murphy specifically for really looking for her.
“They all the time kept me in check,” she said. “Karen’s all the time been very, very vocal about mental health and having the ability to understand body image. She was one among the primary individuals who was really helpful for me in [understanding] that I wasn’t the one one which felt that way.”
Now, Hadid is feeling more confident in herself and sharing who she really is to the world. “People could make up stories about me; they will form whatever version of me they need of their head,” she said. “But I believe the reality and the sunshine all the time finally ends up coming out. My truth, who I actually am, and what I stand for, goes to be seen.”
Alyssa Bailey is the senior news and strategy editor at ELLE.com, where she oversees coverage of celebrities and royals (particularly Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton). She previously held positions at InStyle and Cosmopolitan. When she’s not working, she loves running around Central Park, making people take #ootd pics of her, and exploring Recent York City.
