She leads with her heart, and that’s beautiful,” says Gigi Hadid. “That’s the magic of Bella”

 

 

When Bella was in high school, a psychiatrist prescribed extended-release Adderall for her inattention, thinking it might simply be ADHD. She said that the appetite suppressant effects of the stimulant pushed her into anorexia. “I used this calorie counting app, it was like the devil to me,” she recalls. “I’m going to make my little lunch with three of my raspberries and celery. I was just trying, I realize now, to feel in control of myself when I feel out of control with everything else.” Today, Bella has a very healthy relationship with food, but she says this dysfunctional feeling persists. “I can barely look in the mirror to this day because of that stage in my life.”

Next time I see Bella, it’s early January in Los Angeles, and she’s happy. She celebrated a light-hearted New Year’s Eve at home with her boyfriend of nearly two years, Marc Kalman, an art director based in New York. Bella made them spinners, and they watched the ball drop on TV. She worked hard to keep her relationship private. “I think that’s why things can last,” she said, contrasting it completely with her public but woeful relationship with The Weeknd. “When you give others the right to have an opinion on things that are too personal for you, it poisons it.”

 

She is in L.A. to discuss with Jen Batc started, her partner in Kin Euphorics, the non-alcoholic, complementary drink line she’s been busy building. (Bella didn’t create Kin, but she fell in love with her product so much that she built one of her decks and presented it to Ari Emanuel, CEO of Endeavor, parent company. of IMG, who later introduced Bella to the brand.) She is also here to visit the clinic of Daniel Amen, MD, a psychiatrist, who uses SPECT scans to measure blood flow levels in a certain regions of the brain. He told her, based on previous scans, that her frontal lobe had been asleep for the past eight years. She hopes better blood flow will mean less brain fog. (Amen is a polarizing figure in the field of psychiatry, having built her business around interventions that some say lack a strong, peer-reviewed evidence base. .)

Bella dressing like a model has made her an icon of street style in recent years. It’s a Y2K hype girl thing, with mainstream vintage pieces or something on purpose – like a fuzzy animal print bucket hat – that works because she’s Bella Hadid. Today is a classic pair of Roberto Cavalli trousers with a raver print, white socks, her favorite Comme des Garçons x Doc Martens leather oxfords, a Christophe Lemaire tight black shirt, a choker necklace. wooden with old Yves Saint Laurent charms and a forgotten Prada bag from 2004.