Coop 15,354 Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Don’t expect Cara Delevingne to return to the runway any time soon. The “Paper Towns” star has now completed the long journey from the catwalk to the Hollywood red carpet, and she intends to keep her status as a model “former” forevermore for several reasons.It’s not because she’s got mad beat-boxing and eyebrow-shaping skills which can pay the bills, so to speak; she also says she suffered a great deal of anxiety and body-shaming as a supermodel and felt subjected to “disgusting” poses in her early days in the business.Speaking to London’s The Times (via People), Delevingne made it clear that she will “not [be] doing fashion work any more” — a move which many suspected to be the plan after she reportedly dropped her model management company earlier this summer.“Modelling just made me feel a bit hollow after a while,” Delevingne told the mag. “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.”Indeed, even though Delevingne just turned 23, she’d been working in the industry for a dozen years before she quit — and she paid the physical and emotional price for it, too.That stress eventually manifested into the development of severe psoriasis, a chronic, visible skin condition which made her feel even more isolated in the industry. “People would put on gloves and not want to touch me because they thought it was, like, leprosy or something.”“I was, like, fight and flight for months. Just constantly on edge,” Cara further explained, adding that, similar to the body-shaming Miley Cyrus recently opened up about from her days as a youth thrust under a spotlight of extreme expectations, it was damaging to her self-esteem. “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,” said Delevingne.Even though she’s now taken a final step away from the modeling biz for her own pursuits, she’s still got some love for the world of fashion. Today (Monday, August 17) she gave an Instagram shout out to Vogue Magazine for its “Forces of Fashion” feature, saying she was “so honored” to be included in the mix of fashion’s most powerful figures.Even so, she still has trouble stomaching some of the things she’s experienced along the way in that line of work — especially what she felt were some overly salacious poses for her age at the time. “I am a bit of a feminist and it makes me feel sick. It’s horrible and it’s disgusting … [These are] young girls. You start when you are really young and you do, you get subjected to … not great stuff.” http://www.mtv.com/news/2243378/cara-delevingne-modeling-standards/?xrs=_s.fb_main Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen 30,426 Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Good for her Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klou 2,414 Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 A wise decision. She has talent in other areas, so I see it as a good move. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KyliesChild 16,907 Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Thank god, her walk is so lousy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sister 9,907 Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 I am disappointed. I like her in still frame.But, follow your dreams~ The future's uncertain and the end is always near. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Head Empty 25,196 Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 I don't know her very well, but I've seen her on Graham Norton (I think?) and she seems really nice . Really excited to see her in Suicide Squad next year . Happiness will never last, darkness comes to kick your ass... ᵃˢˢ 🕺 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
elijahfan 26,303 Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Ok Cara, but filmmaking isn't necessarily a sweeter world than fashion for women. Just saying. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LePetitGAGABLover 21,234 Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 I've missed you @Coop Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coop 15,354 Posted August 17, 2015 Author Share Posted August 17, 2015 I've missed you @Coop Thanks I'm back now Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleLion 161 Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Ok Cara, but filmmaking isn't necessarily a sweeter world than fashion for women. Just saying.at least in movies they dont get "too old" at 25, maybe at 35, so is ten years more of work than modelling Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaga Monster 13,001 Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Good for her GGD Presidential Elections Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pablo 7,808 Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 the money is in acting though, so good for her! She was such a good runway model though Don't visit my profile Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark 4,065 Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 uhm... this girl. You get like 2 or 3 movies, and you're not going back where I came from? I know that the modeling life is a struggle, but what does acting make any difference? You gotta be skinny for a role as well, or get that 'ideal' image and all that hollywood crap. You also fly back and forth for all that stress. And remember, famous actors are the ones who get to model stuff too. So don't go back and crawling to where you came from. I feel like her head is getting big from all these movie career attention. 00026 † 10000 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bat 6,162 Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 She only just did like 1-2 movies? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Versace 7,979 Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 Ready for that album Girl Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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