Bella Hadid struck up a close friendship with fellow model Kendall Jenner online before ever meeting in person.
“I met her for the first time seven years ago over Twitter,” the 20-year-old recalls to InStyle magazine. “That was before we started modelling; I was probably 14 or 15. We met up and had sushi, and now we’re best friends. She’s a pretty significant human I met online.”
“I’m not saying I don’t love my job, but people think modeling is a bulls**t thing to become more famous,”
“I was 100 per cent independent by the time I was 18, and I paid for my own apartment,” she adds. “That wasn’t because of my parents. I worked my a** off for two years.”
Discussing the backlash she has experienced in the press and on social media, Bella continues, “(The media will) say that I had a conversation with someone I’ve never even met before. Or people will judge me for things I can’t change. Imagine that somebody is telling you that you’re a piece of s**t every day on social media. You kind of feel like, ‘Well, am I a piece of s**t?’ You don’t really know.”
“I was 100 per cent independent by the time I was 18, and I paid for my own apartment,” she adds. “That wasn’t because of my parents. I worked my a** off for two years.”
Discussing the backlash she has experienced in the press and on social media, Bella continues, “(The media will) say that I had a conversation with someone I’ve never even met before. Or people will judge me for things I can’t change. Imagine that somebody is telling you that you’re a piece of s**t every day on social media. You kind of feel like, ‘Well, am I a piece of s**t?’ You don’t really know.”
