Bella Hadid details ‘long time’ struggles of alter ego

Bella Hadid just admitted to relying on her alter ego “for a very long time.”

The 28-year-old model revealed she felt quite insecure about her appearance during her younger years, leading her to developing an alter ego.

She told British Vogue, “I was like 17, 18 years old not knowing or loving myself a hundred per cent yet.”

“I had just moved out of my parents’ house and gone straight into a world where you have to stare in the mirror every single day,” Bella added.

The runway beauty continued, “And we get our periods. You’re shooting Victoria’s Secret on your period, with endo. That should be illegal. I’m going to talk to the White House about it, because we should literally ban women working on the week of their period. And the week before, to be honest.”

“But, beyond that, just being a human being and having to look in the mirror every single day, I think it really does something to your self-confidence and to your soul. That’s why I say the girl who’s at work is Belinda. And then the minute that I get home, I’m on the couch, that’s just Bella again,” the celebrity said, explaining how alter ego conception worked.

Talking about herself, she explained, “Belinda just does her job. She slays. She can be crying from 5am to 7am but by the time she gets to work, a smile’s on her face and she’s going to do her job and get through it. That’s Belinda for me.”

“I get emotional thinking about it, because it’s like I have put on that alter ego for a very long time. It’s almost a mask because when I get home I am just a depletion. I’m a skeleton,” Bella Hadid concluded.