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On her 25th birthday, Bella Hadid took the time to draw the spotlight on Mental Illness Awareness Week, National Depression Screening Day, and World Mental Health Day. In early 2021, Hadid also took a brief hiatus from social media and urged her fans to always prioritize their mental health to get to know their “full potential”.
“Dealing with mental illness for most of my life, bringing awareness to the education of mental health through my platform is something that I will continue to do until our mental is just as respected as our physical. I want everyone who struggles daily to know that you are not alone,” Hadid shared on her mental health journey. “The emotional, physical, and mental toll that chronic depression, anxiety, ADD, OCD, etc takes over a person is not only debilitating but completely numbing at its best. It is something that has made me feel unworthy of life at times.”
Hadid has always been unapologetically honest about her battle with the buckling pressure of handling worldwide fame. At the Vogue Fashion Festival in 2019, Hadid revealed that it initially took her a lot of time to speak up about her mental health:
“For a while, I just didn’t want to talk about it, and I’ve gone through a lot in the past few years with my health. I feel guilty for being able to live this incredible life, have the opportunities that I do, but somehow still be depressed. It doesn’t make sense,” she said. “I would cry every single morning, I would cry during my lunch breaks, I would cry before I slept. I was very emotionally unstable for a while when I was working 14-hour days for four months straight as an 18-year-old. I think I just wanted to breathe a little bit. And so it kind of put me in a spiral.”
The star has come a long way and has made sure one thing always stays constant – honesty. From using her platform to highlight important issues across the globe to being true to herself and her community, Hadid has been a force to be reckoned with.
This time, to mark the important occasion of mental health awareness, she revealed that 10 percent of the October sale proceeds from her non-alcoholic beverage brand Kin Euphorics will be going to Gurls Talk – a not-for-profit community that advocates for mental health and wellbeing awareness among young women and children.
