Bella Hadid Opens Up About the Effects of Constantly Being Compared to Sister Gigi Hadid

Bella Hadid is getting candid about being compared to her older sister Gigi Hadid.

The two sisters have been the subject of comparisons for years, especially after they both became well known models.

In a new interview, Bella opened up about what the effects of the lifelong comparisons have had on her.

Click inside to see what she said…

“I was the uglier sister. I was the brunette. I wasn’t as cool as Gigi, not as outgoing. That’s really what people said about me,” Bella told Vogue for the April cover. “And unfortunately when you get told things so many times, you do just believe it. I always ask myself, how did a girl with incredible insecurities, anxiety, depression, body-image issues, eating issues, who hates to be touched, who has intense social anxiety—what was I doing getting into this business? But over the years I became a good actress.”

“I put on a very smiley face, or a very strong face. I always felt like I had something to prove,” she continued. “People can say anything about how I look, about how I talk, about how I act. But in seven years I never missed a job, canceled a job, was late to a job. No one can ever say that I don’t work my ass off.”

Bella also opened up about getting a nose job at 14, and the public always commenting and speculating on her appearance.

“I wish I had kept the nose of my ancestors. I think I would have grown into it. People think I fully f–ked with my face because of one picture of me as a teenager looking puffy. I’m pretty sure you don’t look the same now as you did at 13, right?” Bella told the mag. “I have never used filler. Let’s just put an end to that. I have no issue with it, but it’s not for me.”

“Whoever thinks I’ve gotten my eyes lifted or whatever it’s called—it’s face tape! The oldest trick in the book,” she shared. “I’ve had this impostor syndrome where people made me feel like I didn’t deserve any of this. People always have something to say, but what I have to say is, I’ve always been misunderstood in my industry and by the people around me.”

For more from Bella Hadid, and to see her April cover, head to Vogue.com!