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From the Eddie white boots and Y2K-inspired brown halterneck dress she wore last week to celebrate her best friend’s birthday to the perfectly-placed vintage Roberto Cavalli she wore to a Miami wedding late last year, Bella Hadid knows how to dress for a big night out. Almost every look she leaves the house in is one that becomes instantly internet-breaking, making her sit at the very top of most post-pandemic party looks Pinterest boards. (Dua Lipa is, naturally, up there, too).
But if you were thinking these nights would contain shots of 818 Tequila and table dancing, you’d be wrong about the shots part, for Hadid at least (sorry, Kendall). In a new interview, the 25-year-old model revealed she gave up drinking entirely six months ago, saying she realised she couldn’t control herself once she started and hated the anxiety alcohol left her with the next day.
“I have done my fair share of drinking,” Hadid told InStyle, revealing her new sober stance while speaking about why she feels so strongly about Kin Euphorics, the brand of functional nonalcoholic beverages she co-founded late last year. “I loved alcohol and it got to the point where I even started to, you know, cancel nights out that I felt like I wouldn’t be able to control myself,” she continued.
In an Instagram post in September when revealing her latest business venture, Hadid first opened up about how growing social anxiety made drinking a fixture of her social life. “It got harder for me to go out without having one drink to calm my nerves, which made me not want to go out at all,” she wrote at the time.
“I drink this when I have crippling anxiety and I can’t leave my house, or when I’m not gonna drink alcohol but still want to loosen up and be able to speak to people and socialise,” she continued, referencing Kin Euphorics.
Now Hadid says that after six months alcohol-free, she doesn’t think she’ll ever drink again. “I don’t feel the need because I know how it will affect me at three in the morning when I wake up with horrible anxiety thinking about that one thing I said five years ago when I graduated high school,” she said.
We feel you on that one, Bella. Perhaps our style muse will become our lifestyle muse—dry February, anyone?
