Fashion is Bella! Bella Hadid Hot for Instyle August 2017

In an interview with Instyle, IT girl, jet-setter and megamodel Bella Hadid shares a side of her that we never see through her selfies.

“If Hadid is distracted, it’s for good reason. Last year Models.com declared her the model of 2016, and so far she has assumed the mantle with aplomb. In the first six months of 2017 she has clocked campaigns for 10 brands. (When I ask Hadid about this, she starts counting them on her fingers.) The biggest to date is her contract as the face of Dior Beauty. “The first time I heard that I booked Dior, I was hysterically crying to my agent,” says the 20-year-old. “ ‘You mean Dior? Are you lying? Do you mean a different brand from Europe?”, Instyle writes of her.

“In the weeks that follow our chat, she goes on to star in ads for Nike and Giuseppe Zanotti, descend Rome’s Spanish Steps for a Bulgari event that is such a spectacle that it could have roused Fellini from his grave, walk in shows for Naomi Campbell and amfAR, reportedly flirt with Leonardo DiCaprio, jet-ski with designer Peter Dundas, chopper to Monaco with fellow model Winnie Harlow for the Grand Prix, host an in-store gathering at Nike’s new L.A. flagship, and appear at the CFDA Awards with Off-White designer Virgil Abloh. All of which is documented in some shape or form via social media and the media writ large. No wonder she claims to have attentional issues,” the magazine continues.

“At the end of the day, I think working this much is going to give me a better platform to do bigger things in the world,” she says. “I’m not saying I don’t love my job, but people think modeling is just a bullsh— thing to become more famous. I was 100 percent independent by the time I was 18, and I paid for my own apartment. That wasn’t because of my parents. I worked my ass off for two years,” Hadid told Instyle.