Here are some photos of Bella Hadid in early March, where she attended the UEFA Champions League Round of 16 Second Leg match between Paris Saint-Germain and Real Madrid. She ended up being seated next to David Beckham, and much was made (at the time) of these photos. Personally, I do think it looks like Bella is flirting with him. David doesn’t seem to be that into it, but he was talking to her and being polite. She looked super-into it. Anyway, Bella is a famous model, as we know. She’s one of the faces of Dior Beauty, which means she gives interviews about her face. Literally. Bella chatted with Cosmopolitan about makeup, eyebrows and feeling self-conscious:
Beauty insecurities: “I think I had more beauty insecurities growing up than probably anybody. Growing up, I was always self-conscious about my brows but I never knew that you could do something about it. I’ve always had really thin brows, I got them from my dad. I was also kind of chubbier growing up until I was 15, so there were a lot of things I had to grow into — I definitely had to grow into my face a lot. I wasn’t very secure with myself until recently.”
She deals with her thin brows by filling them in: “Fake it till you make it, I guess. Brows are such a beautiful part of a woman and a man’s face, so to be able to enhance them now is revolutionary for me.”
She contours for a little “chisel”: “I don’t contour every day, but it’s life-changing for sure. I mean, contouring your nose and jawline. Whew!”
“I think I had more beauty insecurities growing up than probably anybody.” Really? No one else had bigger insecurities?!? Don’t get me wrong, I know Bella had insecurities, or else why would she go through the plastic surgery procedures at such a young age? People act like having a bigger nose is some life-altering disaster, I swear to God. And thin brows? Again, I realize that she’s trying to sell Dior products, but I would LOVE it if my biggest issue was “thin brows.”
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Lmao no girl.
I gotta say I’m more into Robin Wright and her hottie vs Bekham and Bella
Yes!
My eyes just tractor beamed two the two of them at the bottom of the photo.
Get it, Claire Underwood!
Same!
oooh! same. she’s goals, and her beau is hot!
I have thin brows. It is just so difficult. Some days, i can barely get out of bed because I fret so much about my thin brows. I mean, what if I fill them in and then it rains or I get sweaty and all the pencil strokes get washed away and my thin brows are exposed and people will think I’m not beautiful? How will I ever cope? Something must be done to solve this global crisis of thin brows.
And who is that blonde woman with the piercing blue eyes and strong jaw line and brows that don’t look like they were drawn on? She’s pulling focus in that picture. No wonder Bella is so insecure.
I love you L.p.! I feel the same way about my curly hair. If it is out of control..i can’t function!
You guys have no idea… Do you know what it’s like to leave the house with straight hair when it’s humid outside only to look like a poodle five minutes later? THAT’S torture!
I enter the discussion with my straight hair. In the morning I curl it or put lovely waves in it only to realize, that it is humid outside and all of the effort becomes meaningless, because within a few minutes my hair looks like chives. I’m sorry… I have to leave. I can’t hold back the tears.
@Greenmonster, did your mother ever try to perm it and then only some of it takes and the rest of it remains stick straight? This combined with my thin brows, it is a miracle I have the courage to leave the house.
@Lightpurple: I’m so sorry! My mother never tried tp perm my hair – I’m sorry, you had to go through all of this.
If it helps, my mother tried to pierce my ears and it was a bloody mess that left my ears flaming red and me traumatized.
I feel your pain L.P. I too suffer with not only thin but light coloured brows – people simply have no idea of the all too real struggle of going through summer as a teenager with brows / eyelashes that disappear. My family were unsupportive as they are dark haired – being blonde was hell.
Thankfully I discovered eyelash and brow tint. Now my life is complete!
Oh I have you all beat on this one. When I was a teenager I had *starts to sob* the most curly, frizzy hair EVER. Do you know what I had to suffer through? I had to iron it!!! Every day. The smell of sizzling hair is burned (no pun intended) into my smell memories. I had to tape my bangs down every night – imagine what my forehead looked like the next morning when I had to rip the tape off!! It was like I had racing stripes on my forehead. I’m forever damaged by this and have been considering finding a therapist who deals in hair trauma issues.
That’s Robin Wright!
But lucky you. There’s now a REVOLUTIONARY way to deal with it. Because making your eyebrows more voluminous is revolutionary and eyebrow pencils are a brand new thing.
I didn’t realize that people put so much stock into their nose until I was in high school and a friend of mine underwent an operation to get her nose “slimmer” (????) Over summer break. They had to wait until she was 17 and her parents had to go and whatnot but it seemed so extreme. I never looked at my nose the same. I couldn’t imagine growing up in a place where those things are even more important.
When I was about 14, I got called ‘Liam Neeson in a wig’. At the time it hurt. My nose is medium sized, but I have a very high nasal bridge so it does look prominent from profile and 3/4 view. It hurt at the time as it seemed like my nose grew before everything else.
Today I freakin’ wish I looked like Liam Neeson in a wig.
Noses can seriously alter the appearance of the face, that’s why. There’s also some…not so great racial connotations associated with slim noses, as opposed to thicker, broader ones.
Where I grew up, it was totally normal for teenagers to have surgery like a rhinoplasty. You get your braces off, get contact lenses and then a nose job. I was pressured by my family to get a nose job when I was 17. I remember meeting with the plastic surgeon but ultimately decided not to pursue surgery. I have very mixed feelings about the whole experience. So no judgement for B.H. I just wish that she had a better surgeon because they messed up the tip of her nose.
When the DM had these photos of the two of them at that match, theya had loads more and half the time Bella isn’t even looking at him or engaging with him, but David Beckham is staring down her top or looking at her creepily- felt very sorry for Victoria in that moment, Got major creep vibes from the photos.
Wish I could “grow into my face” aka afford bucket loads of surgery.
Agree. I get creep vibes from the first photo. Why are we so willing to believe she’s into him? To her, he’s an old man.
Okay so I just looked at her before and after pictures. I had no idea she had done plastic surgery until now.
Really?
I think most people havent seen many pictures of Bella before she was famous/had work done. Also her work is GOOD it wasnt obvious to me at least until I saw the before pictures…
She has THE most obvious nose job!
Jobs, plural.
Alix yes, I think she’s had more than one nose job.
After those surgeries, I think her nose looks terrible. It’s too small and pinched and very obvious. It’s not good work.
Young skin is resilient enough that it can still look ok if the surgeon is skilled enough. But at some point, people just start looking plastic and like every other person who has the same surgeon. I don’t know how they can look in the mirror and not realize that.
So many celebrity surgery addicts would have looked fine if they had just let themselves age naturally, focusing on things we all can do (eating well, getting enough exercise).
People so often seem to lose the distinctiveness that makes their face interesting when they go for surgery and injections. And it should be illegal to do such things to people who haven’t even finished growing unless there is a serious medical reason for it.
She is on the edge of overworked because she looks like she has had work and as much as she has had it might be hard to stop. It is aging, and once someone starts with so much young, it is always a mistake. The upkeep tends to turn out like Megan Fox who can’t go back now. And it is sad that she thought she had to do all that to her already lovely face.
uhmmmm… she pretty much had a face transplant.
I believe her when she says she was insecure, it couldn’t have been easy having a sister as beautiful as Gigi.
Bella had a LOT of plastic surgery before looking like she does, i doubt thin eyebrows were the cause of her insecurities though
I think it’s more about what her mother deemed important, which was beauty.
Yes! I watched Yolanda and her daughters in RHoBH. I’m sure it was Yo’s idea for Bella to have a nose job, and I wouldn’t be surprised if Bella heard that she “needed” one for much of her life. Yolanda scolded Gigi for wanting just one piece of the cake celebrating her. Bella once called Yo because she was feeling faint at an equestrian event she was competing in and Yo told her to chew an almond slowly. Even though these girls were daughters of a billionaire, Yolanda raised them to dismiss college (against their father’s wishes) and model instead. She raised them as if they came from humble beginnings with trophy wife of a rich man as their life’s goal – like Yo herself.
Yolanda also tells a moving story of sitting at the funeral of her father. Yo knew in her heart that it was now her sole responsibility to financially support herself, mother, and brother. Yo was seven years old.
Her surgeon if very, very good. Her new nose is completely believable.
But I kind of liked her old one better.
Agreed, very good surgery. She should stop here.
I must say, she does look stunning. I would have loved to see what her old nose would have looked like with her grown up face and the current makeup. I am pretty sure she would have looked just as stunning as her best features are her eyes and skin
Oh, brother.
Saying that makes it seem like she doenst know other people have innner lives and feelings as well.
“I definitely had to grow into my face a lot.“
This is why what these girls (Bella, Kylie Jenner, etc) do is disingenuous at best and dangerous at worst. You don’t “grow into” a face that looks completely different than the one you were born with. You pay for it.
Social lies. How many celebrities, including historic ones, do seem to “grow into their faces”? And we all know of private individuals who do.
Turns out that a lot of these people are growing via surgery. It’s just so weird though, isn’t it? How many people get their looks changed pretty significantly from surgery? Megan Fox and Olivia Mann come to mind. I don’t know. I miss the years when it seemed fewer people had significant plastic surgeries. Faces grow increasingly uncanny.
I don’t know, Clarke Gable, Dean Martin, Burt Lancaster, Marilyn Monroe, Rita Hayworth, Mae West, Jean Harlow, Joan Crawford, etc all had stuff done.
These days stars (and models) are open about what they have done, and as a result we are more knowledgeable about the procedures and able to spot them much more easily than in the past.
I disagree LAK. They all deny their work. Has Halle Berry, Gisele, any of the Kardashians, Gwen Stefani, Zac Efron, Fergie, or David Beckham(for example) talked about their nose jobs?
Nope.
Everyone likes to pretend they were born that way.
Psl: I’ll rephrase…….
These days, with the wide circulation of before and after pictures, together with those celebs that are willing to discuss their procedures openly, the public is better informed about the work even where the celeb is claiming to be all natural. And frankly, if one can’t spot cosmetic procedures by now, and especially if one believes the very obvious and outlandish cosmetic work on some celebs eg the Kardashians, then you deserve to be lied to.
As for Historic celebs, their before pictures aren’t as widely circulated therefore people assume that they didn’t have any work done.
It leads to comments such as the one above that they wished we all went back to all natural faces as before. I mean Rita Hayworth, before and after: https://hips.hearstapps.com/mac.h-cdn.co/assets/16/28/1280×853/gallery-1468437679-mc-071316-oldhollywood01.jpg?resize=480:*
Sounds like she was the “chubby” one ( lol, girl wait) in a family obsessed with looks.
Her nose job really changed her whole face.
If it’s something that really bothers a person, I don’t begrudge them changing it if it will really improve their life. But that would be more believable for her to talk about, rather than the agony of “thin brows”. Please.
Amen. No talk of her nose job (it’s all contouring LOL) by about the age of 18 and her much fuller lips. Be honest or don’t bother.
Yes, nose and lips. https://beautyeditor.ca/2015/10/09/bella-hadid-before-and-after
IDK, you do grow into your face. When I turned 16 my face changed – I suddenly lost a bit of fat and my pseudo-cheekbones came out to play (I still have a round face, but a bit more defined).
However, girl, no. If the worst things about your body/face are your brows and nose, you need a reality check. Women like Bella need to accept themselves before their faces becomes plastic and they stop looking remotely like themselves.
If you watched RHOBH, you’d understand why these are her issues. Their mother was fixated on their physicality to an insane degree. If they hadn’t made it as models, i don’t think their mother would acknowledge them.
Sounds as though her real problem was not her nose or thin brows, but her mother. Sad that she wasn’t strong enough to avoid the surgeon and instead learn to cope with a defective parent.
LAK, I said the same above.
Their mother is awful, and their father is even worse. She has nothing else to talk about because there is nothing else but looks. Her parents didn’t stress substance so there isn’t any and most people find vapid people boring.
There is no way David Beckham is even remotely interested in her, but I am very sure she loves the speculation and loves being photographed next to him by “accident”.
I don’t feel sorry for VB. She can handle it after all this time one way or the other.
Well, when people repeatedly ask you about your nose, it makes you self conscious. I’ve been asked about it directly and indirectly many times. Makes you think there must be something wrong with it. My nose is slightly crooked. It was worse but I went and got a nose job. Unable to make it completely straight but it’s better. Accepting ourselves is easier said than done.
I know, I have body issues very hard to correct. I wish I had Bella’s issues. However, her nose was neither gigantic nor crooked. It’s sad she felt the need to fix herself so much at such a young age.
Omg, Becks is turning into Sean Connery around the eyes!
First of all, she doesn’t know how everyone else feels – so saying she was more insecure “than anybody” is ridiculous.
Second, her face has had a complete overhaul. She has the most obvious nose job ever. Her face looks “manufactured” to me, like Kim K’s.
People need to stop interviewing her. She is dumb as a box of rocks.
The nose is the most obvious change, so I don’t know why she won’t own that insecurity. Maybe because it’s seen as gauche to sell expensive plastic surgery to fix “problems.” 9_9 She’s clearly had her lips done, too, but the nose job definitely changed her face the most.
My first official eye roll for the day is accompanied by a tune played by the worlds smallest violin which plays for Bella’s beauty insecurities.
No you didn’t. Shut up.
Reading this article and the one about Blue Ivy’s stylist really made me sad. What are we showing/teaching our youngsters and young women? That what you look like and what you wear is all that matters? This is such first world bullshit.
I’ve seen her “before” photos and she was a pretty young girl.
Thin brows? Really girl? She’s just as dilusional as you would expect from a rich Hollywood kid.
I had more beauty insecurities than anybody and thankfully my parents had money so I could just fix all that and not learn to love my flaws and hey look at me now, thanks to all that surgery I can be a model. Side eye, eye roll, all of it. I just freaking cannot with any of these rich, privileged, instamodels that have simply had surgery to become what they are.
They must have asked her about her insecurities, and, hence, her answers. I don’t haver much of a reaction either way to her answers — I figure these are the answers you’ll get if an interviewer asking about one’s looks poses these kinds of questions to their subjects.
I don’t blame her for her insecurities. Your insecurities related to looks are rarely born from within–they come from outside sources. She works in show business, in a society/culture that doesn’t put much worth in you when you don’t conform to beauty standards, or when you “buy” your look to conform to those beauty standards. Of course she’s keeping it a secret. She’s not going to be rewarded for being honest about it.
I’m not sure that I’ve ever purposely looked at someone’s eyebrows. They are there to keep dust out of our eyes just like our eyelashes lol. Unless someone’s eyebrows are a unified entity or they resemble Einstein’s I don’t notice or judge them. Is this weird on my part? Her mom and dad did quite a number on her so I’m sure she did feel a ton of pressure but may not be able to eloquently express those feelings.
She’s full of BS. I don’t care that celebs & models get plastic surgery, but to pretend that your only problem is “thin eyebrows” is bogus. You wouldn’t need to rearrange your face, if your only problem was thin eyebrows.
I really hate the lying when it comes to plastic surgery. People like Bella have money & access to the best surgeons. Her work was VERY good. It also helped that she looked very good before surgery. Sadly, many young girls will go under the knife to emulate her & other celebs, and often, obtain poor results. It reminds me of the song by Melanie Martinez, Mrs. Potato Head. I wish people were a little more honest about plastic surgery & its drawbacks. It’s not a miraculous fix, and if you don’t have the money for a good surgeon, don’t bother…
This girl does not resemble a real model to me; she looks like a mannequin.
I don’t see flirting.
It must be hard growing up in a place with so much pressure about appearance. She is absolutely stunning, so if she can feel insecure, I guess anyone can! For some reason, she seems really sweet, kinder than the other famous girls her age.
It looks to me like she has always a very modeleque face, both before and after. The changes she made are at least very minimal and natural (albeit unnecessary!) She has always been beautiful, but it’s unfortunate that she hasn’t had full confidence in herself until recently. The industry really does a number on people!