Bella hadid “regrets” nose job at 14 and opens up about anorexia struggle

In an incredibly candid interview, Bella Hadid has said that she regrets her decision to get a nose job aged 14.

Speaking to Vogue, the supermodel opened up about her health struggles, mental health, and her experiences with an eating disorder. Speaking about living under her older sister Gigi Hadid’s shadow, the 25-year-old addressed rumours that she has had a series of cosmetic procedures. “People think I fully fucked with my face because of one picture of me as a teenager looking puffy,” she asserted. “I have never used filler. Let’s put an end to that,” she added, denying that she had an eyelift too: “It’s face tape! The oldest trick in the book.”

The one plastic surgery she copped to was a nose job aged 14, which she now regrets. “I wish I had kept the nose of my ancestors,” she said. “I think I would have grown into it.”

Speaking about the circumstances at the time, Hadid explained: “I was the uglier sister. I was the brunette. I wasn’t as cool as Gigi, not as outgoing. 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?”

“I’ve had this impostor syndrome where people made me feel like I didn’t deserve any of this,” she continued. “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.”

As well as opening up about the symptoms she endures as a result of Lyme disease — which her mother, Yolanda, and her brother, Anwar, also suffer from — Hadid touched on her experience of anorexia, which began when she was prescribed Adderall in high school. “I was on this calorie-counting app, which was like the devil to me,” she disclosed.

“I’d pack my little lunch with my three raspberries, my celery stick. I was just trying, I realise now, to feel in control of myself when I felt so out of control of everything else. I remember a stylist talking about my weight because I couldn’t zip up. Looking back, I think, yeah, because a Saint Laurent sample size from the runway was just not a real size for anybody. But then you think there’s something wrong with you.”