Bella Hadid Reacts to Concern About Her “Stamina” During Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show
Bella Hadid is happy to be back at work.
The supermodel detailed the mental toll she experienced while going through treatment for Lyme disease last year, which left her “having to say no to every job for almost a year.”
“I was emotional because you feel disposable,” Bella told her sister Gigi Hadid in an interview with Vogue Italy published Feb. 23, noting she learned to be content with focusing on her health. “How good I am doesn’t have to do with the jobs that I say yes to. For so long, saying no to a job was, like, who was I to say no to anything?”
The 29-year-old added, “I had to kind of release it and be like, ‘I think people know my heart and my personality and who I am enough now that I can release that and really do the jobs that are with and for the people that I love and trust and support and respect.”
Beyond learning to let go of the insecurity she felt when receiving treatment for her Lyme disease—which she was diagnosed with in 2013 at 16 years old—Bella also praised Gigi for modeling what it means to have boundaries.