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The 23-year-old British star says she's "not doing fashion work anymore" in a new interview with The Times, explaining that the demands of the industry has taken a serious toll on both her physical and mental health.
"I was, like, fight and flight for months. Just constantly on edge," Cara says about her life as a model, which she says affected her so much that she developed a psoriasis outbreak. "It is a mental thing as well because if you hate yourself and your body and the way you look, it just gets worse and worse."
"Modeling just made me feel a bit hollow after a while," she adds. "It didn't make me grow at all as a human being. And I kind of forgot how young I was. I felt so old."
"I am a bit of a feminist and it makes me feel sick," she recalls. "It's horrible and it's disgusting. You start when you are really young and ... you get subjected to ... not great stuff."
"I ended up feeling a bit empty," she later revealed. "Fashion is about what’s on the outside, and that's it. There's no searching, it's just creating pretty things."
In her most recent interview for July's Vogue, the model-turned-actress revealed she gets more satisfaction from her new career: “The thrill of acting is making a character real. Modeling is the opposite of real. It’s being fake in front of the camera."
“I’m not sure I understand what fashion is anymore,” she said.
“I admit I was terrified to leave. I mean, the bubble gives you a kind of dysfunctional family. When you’re in it, you get it. And the second you’re out of it, you’re like, What the hell just happened?”
Yikes. The girl is getting in over her head. Starting with the heavy-handed metaphor of taking off those heels. "Your flaws are what make you special." Then the poem. Soon there'll be a book. I can't wait.Girl ain't getting praised like she was in the fashion industry so she's coming back...
Backstabbing an entire industry and then saying you never quit? It doesn't work like that.
You can't do both Cara. Especially when you had problems with overworking in the past. Modelling is not a hobby, if you don't want to do it then thousands of young girls across the world will do it AND without complaining.
Don't take it for granted because it's what it looks like.
If newspapers aren't telling the truth then why isn't she suing? It's called defamation. She said acting has always been her dream and that's she moving on from modelling. It's quitting for me.