Bella Hadid has spoken out about her mental health struggles, saying that anxiety left her unable to get dressed.
The 25-year-old supermodel opened up in an interview with WSJ Magazine published this Monday, January 17.
During their conversation, Hadid said she had not used a personal stylist in "maybe two years now," and added that putting an outfit together was often too much for her to face.
"I was in such a weird place mentally that it was really complicated for me to get out of the house and put an outfit together, especially with the anxiety of [paparazzi] being outside and all that," she explained.
Hadid went on to explains how she had learned not to listen to criticism about her fashion sense, saying: "In the last year, it was really important for me to learn that even if people talk about my style or if they like it or if they don’t, it doesn’t matter, because it’s my style.
"When I leave the house in the morning, what I think about is: Does this make me happy? Do I feel good in this and do I feel comfortable?"
The model - who is the younger sister of Gigi Hadid - first opened up about her mental health struggles in November, when she posted a series of selfies in which she was crying to Instagram.
"This is pretty much my everyday, every night for a few years now," revealed the model, before detailing how she had been suffering "breakdowns and burnouts".
"Social media is not real. For anyone struggling, please remember that," she wrote at the time.
In the interview, Hadid explained that her teary-eyed selfies were photos she would send to her mom or doctor when she couldn't put her feelings into words.
"It was the easiest thing for me to do at the time because I was never able to explain how I was feeling. I would just be in excruciating and debilitating mental and physical pain, and I didn’t know why," she said.
The cover girl went on to say that she hoped by posting the unglamorous pictures she would reassure people going struggling with their own mental health.
She added: "It was to make sure that anybody that was feeling that way knew it was OK to feel that way. Even though on Instagram things look so beautiful, at the end of the day, we are all cut from the same cloth.
"At some point I wasn’t able to post nice pretty pictures anymore. I was over it."
