What Bella Hadid Has Said About 'Excruciating' Mental Health Journey

Bella Hadid has opened up about her mental health struggles, labeling her experience "excruciating and debilitating."

The 25-year-old supermodel spoke frankly about the difficulties she has faced being in the public eye and how that has affected her peace of mind.

"I was in such a weird place mentally that it was really complicated for me to get out of the house and put an outfit together, especially with the anxiety of [paparazzi] being outside and all that," she said in a candid interview with WSJ Magazine.

When asked about her iconic personal style, Hadid responded: "In the last year, it was really important for me to learn that even if people talk about my style or if they like it or if they don't, it doesn't matter, because it's my style. When I leave the house in the morning, what I think about is: Does this make me happy? Do I feel good in this and do I feel comfortable?"

The model also opened up about going through "really depressive episodes" and said that she communicated these feelings with her mother or doctor via photos.

She previously shared a series of these selfies to Instagram in November.

"It was the easiest thing for me to do at the time because I was never able to explain how I was feeling. I would just be in excruciating and debilitating mental and physical pain, and I didn't know why. That was over the past three years," she said of the photos, adding that she felt it was "good for me to be able to speak my truth and at some point I wasn't able to post nice pretty pictures anymore. I was over it."

Amid some more harrowing revelations, the star also revealed she is having more "good days" and that her "brain fog is feeling better."

"I don't feel depressed. I don't have as much anxiety as I usually do. But tomorrow I could wake up and [be] the complete opposite," she shared, adding that support from people reaching out has helped.

"That's why I get so overwhelmed. But that post made me less lonely because I had a lot of people that have reached out saying, 'I feel that way too.' Walking outside, being able to remember there are so many people going through things and have similar patterns to me, it makes me feel better."

She added: "I don't know if that's not what people want on Instagram, and that's fine. I don't have to be on Instagram forever. I feel like real is the new real, and that's what's important to me."