Bella Hadid is getting real about how her beliefs have affected her life.
The 25-year-old model stated that there are brands that will no longer work with her and that some friends have “turned their backs” on her — and in a new interview, she has revealed that this happened because of how vocal she’s been over something that is very important to her.
Bella openly supports Palestine and has spoken out about the conflict between her father’s home country and Israel. Her dad is Mohamed Hadid, a Palestinian real estate developer.
Speaking to Libyan-American journalist Noor Tagouri, Bella shared:
“There have been so many brands that have stopped working with me. A lot of friends have also turned their backs on me.
I had friends that completely dropped me, like even friends that I had been having dinner with on Friday nights, for seven years, now just won’t let me into their house.”
She went on to bravely say that she is fearless when it comes to her support:
“My intention is that my truth can possibly mirror somebody else’s truth. When I was 14, I wrote, ‘Free Palestine’, on my hand literally with flowers in paint. And I was being called names and being immediately blasted as a person of hatred for another people.”
I have no fear when it comes to this. I really believe that it’s like what happens happens, and what is going to happen is bigger than me. If I lose every job, the reason why I did all of the work that I did was to get to this point.”
