Bella Hadid has spoken up about her struggle with mental illness, revealing that she would wake up every morning ‘hysterically sobbing’ for three years.

Bella, 25, spoke openly about her struggles with depression, anxiety, and burnout during her journey to the top of the modelling profession in a new interview for the April issue of US Vogue.

Bella spent more than two weeks at a rehab centre in Tennessee during the height of her struggle, suffering from tiredness as a result of professional pressure, describing how she would ‘tear at lunch in her small greenroom.’

‘For three years when I was working, I would wake up every morning distraught, in tears, alone,’ Bella recounted. I wouldn’t reveal it to anyone. I’d go to work, weep at lunch in my tiny greenroom, finish my day, go to whatever strange small motel I was staying in for the night, cry again, get up the next morning, and repeat the process.’

The Gigi and Anwar Hadid’s sister revealed that she ‘didn’t know what she was sobbing over,’ which would force her to be more tougher on herself because others online would wonder what she had to complain about given her Instagram-ready existence.

Bella said that she had ‘burnout’ in January 2021, describing the ‘trauma-response’ of people-pleasing and felt ill to her stomach if she had to leave somewhere after offending someone.

‘I felt insane after working 15 days in a row,’ Bella revealed. My hair was bleached. I resembled a troll doll. I then coloured it to look like a dawn. That should have been the first warning flag.’

The actress claims she has worked 350 days a year for the previous seven years, but for the first time in her career, she has cancelled her professional obligations in order to focus on herself.

During her time at the hospital, Bella supplemented her generally holistic regimen with the two cornerstones of Western psychiatry, talk therapy and medication.

Bella opened up about her fight with mental health concerns in a series of sad Instagram pictures in November.

After appreciating Willow Smith for publicly expressing her own mental health on her platforms, she penned a lengthy commentary in an attempt to relate to her millions of social media followers.

Bella Hadid, the youngest daughter of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Yolanda Hadid, emphasised that’social media is not real’ as she shared nine teary-eyed images with her admirers.