Efstasia Karahalios '24 For many years, fans have been infatuated with the transformation of Bella Hadid’s nose from her teenage years to the start of her modeling career that started in 2014. She started her career by signing with IMG Models at the age of 16 years old.
She is currently on the front cover of American Vogue Magazine, April 2022 edition. In this interview, Hadid covers the real side of modeling: the mental and physical toll it can take on a person as well as the pressure it takes to individually compete to be the best, worldwide and even in her own family. Many models have spoken out about the dangers of not prioritizing your mental health in this line of work, and it only leads them on dangerous paths. She began getting work done at the age of 14. Many were stunned when Hadid spoke about it in her interview with Vogue. This raised many questions from concerned parents and young girls alike. How could someone let their 14-year-old daughter get cosmetic surgery? In the modeling industry, getting cosmetic surgery at a young age is not unheard of. YahooNews reports on the statistics of teens receiving cosmetic surgery. “According to the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, nearly 230,000 cosmetic surgeries were performed on teens ages 13-19 in 2017, and some as young as 15 are even documenting their plastic surgeries on social media.” Hadid admits in this article to always feeling like the uglier or inferior sister to Gigi. The actual procedure would not be deemed “problematic” if lies did not come with it. This created an unrealistic expectation for younger girls needing to look like they have the perfect nose of a 20-year-old. The mental toll of keeping this secret was also very hard on Bella. Having to consistently be the face of “natural perfection” for years as a young impressionable teen girl was something Bella often struggled with. “To have to wake up every morning with this brain – it’s not cute, so now everything that I do in my personal life is literally to make sure that my mental state stays above water. Fashion can make you or break you.” In the early 2000s being unattainably perfect was the goal. Many famous models struggled with mental and physical problems because of this. Now in the later 2020s, models and others in the industry are finally opening up about their struggles and are being open to showing their true authentic selves. It is refreshing to see the beauty standard be displayed and attainable by everyone and not just the perfect model, that is perfectly edited. We love to see Bella embracing who she is!
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