Bella Hadid’s mom Yolanda slammed for allowing her to get a nose job at 14 as fans say RHOBH alum ‘bred insecurities’
BELLA Hadid opened up about mom Yolanda allowing her to get a nose job at 14, confessing that she regrets the decision.
The model's mother famously appeared on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills for many seasons.
Bella, 25, opened up about being compared to sister Gigi Hadid in a interview featured in the April 2022 issue.
She confessed that she felt inadequate compared to her model sister, which led to insecurities and a desire to change her appearance.
"I was the uglier sister," Bella told Vogue.
"I was the brunette. I wasn't as cool as Gigi, not as outgoing. That's really what people said about me."
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She continued: "And unfortunately when you get told things so many times, you do just believe it.
"I always ask myself, how did a girl with incredible insecurities, anxiety, depression, body-image issues, eating issues, who hates to be touched, who has intense social anxiety – what was I doing getting into this business?"
Bella's insecurities led to her going under the knife at 14 – a decision approved by mom Yolanda.
While she wanted the surgery at the time, these days she said she regrets the decision and fans are slamming her mom for allowing it in the first place.
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";I wish I had kept the nose of my ancestors," she said, adding that she "would have grown into it."
THE BACKLASH
After the interview's release, fans wasted no time slamming the RHOBH alum.
Yolanda was blamed by many as the root of her daughter's insecurities.
One Twitter user wrote: "Yolanda Hadid is a piece of s**t for breeding so much insecurities in her children that they had plastic surgery at a young age and eating disorders."
Another critic tweeted: "Bella Hadid was 14 getting a nose job. Was the fox eye surgery also when she was underage? (What s***ty parents, btw)."
A third hater wrote: "Bella Hadid wouldve grown into her nose and looked hot, Yolanda going to the deepest depths of hell."
Another tweeted: "Yolanda really said get rid of this Arab nose."
Some social media users were sympathetic and sad for Bella, however.
One such person tweeted: "bella hadid saying she wished she kept the nose of her ancestors makes me really sad. We're out here being conditioned from the dawn of colonization to think that eurocentric features are the pinnacle of beauty & only later do we become conscious of this (if ever)."
Gigi has also opened up about plastic surgery and insecurity in the past.
The 26-year-old once told the magazine: "When I look back on my first red carpets when I didn't have makeup artists I would obviously do my own makeup.
"Now it's like, people pull up those pictures and are like, 'Oh, Gigi's nose looks different in these pictures than now.'"
The mom of one went on: "... They'll talk about something with my face. Like, 'This has changed on Gigi.' It's really like, that's the power of makeup.
"Like, I've never done anything to my face."
SQUASHING RUMORS
Bella set the record straight amid rumors she's had other surgeries in the same interview.
She hit back at people who pick apart her appearance.
Bella told Vogue: "People think I fully f**ked with my face because of one picture of me as a teenager looking puffy.
"I'm pretty sure you don't look the same now as you did at 13, right?"
As for fillers, she said she had "no issue" with them, but added that they are "not for me."
Bella told the fashion magazine: "Whoever thinks I've gotten my eyes lifted or whatever t's called – it's face tape! The oldest trick in the book.
"I've had this impostor syndrome where people made me feel like I didn't deserve any of this. People always have something say, but what I have to say is, I've always been misunderstood in my industry and by the people around me."
SHATTERING STIGMA
Bella also opened up about her battle with depression, saying: "For three years while I was working, I would wake up every morning hysterical, in tears, alone.
"I wouldn't show anybody that. I would go to work, cry at lunch in my little greenroom, finish my day, go to whatever random little hotel I was in for the night, cry again, wake up in the morning, and do the same thing."
After two weeks of non-stop work, Bella said: "I became manic.
"I bleached my hair. I looked like a troll doll.
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"Then I dyed it—it looked like a sunrise. That should have been the first sign..."
In 2021, Bella spent two weeks at a treatment facility in Tennessee.
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