When she isn’t glammed up posing for ad campaigns or gracing the covers of top fashion magazines, Cara Delevingne is busy goofin’ off in front of the paparazzi cameras that have become enthralled by her IDGAF mentality, and running about town with best friends Rihanna and Rita Ora. But it isn’t always all play for the model of the moment.
The 21-year-old model celebrated her birthday with a cover release of the esteemed September issue of W Magazine. The stunning cover features Cara, hair slicked back with her money-making features on display, draped in Cartier jewels and rocking a Marc Jacobs top and skirt. But in the corresponding interview, the model makes it clear that living a life in the runway spotlight isn’t all it is hyped up to be.
Cara stripped down and opened up about everything from loneliness to her relationship with Rihanna, and her medical condition that makes Fashion Week the hardest of them all.
Check out the excerpts from the interview below.
On the advice that Rihanna gave her:
“In Greece, it was a lot of couples, and I felt alone, which made me sad, I called Rihanna,” she revealed. “She said, ‘It’s easy to drown yourself in work. That’s a form of escapism. So, if you’re alone and you want to cry, cry.’ And I did. But by then, it was time to leave and get back to my life.”
On how Kate Moss helped her with a Psoriasis flare up during Fashion Week:
“It only happened during Fashion Week! Which is, of course, the worst time of the year for me to be covered in scabs. Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I’m sensitive. Kate [Moss] saw me before the Louis Vuitton show at 3 a.m., when I was being painted by people to cover the scabs. She said, ‘This is horrible! Why is this happening? I need to help you.’ She got me a doctor that afternoon; Kate gives really good advice.”
On her take on modeling:
“In the beginning, I was thinking, How do I set myself apart from the other girls? So many girls were taller, skinnier, and prettier. And I’m not a girly girl at all—I didn’t get boobs until I was around 18! As a teenager, I kept thinking, I’m so short, and I have no boobs—what do I do? Maybe that’s why I’ve been noticed,” she said. “I treat the camera like a person—I gaze into it. Photos are a flat thing, and you need to put life into them.”
Head over to W Magazine to read the whole interview with Cara.
SOURCE: W Magazine
