Bella Hadid

Hadid's candor won't dismantle beauty standards, or stop every teen pining for an unnecessary nose job. But it's a start. Image: Bella Hadid.

And it’s also frustratingly late, coming after repeated assurances by both the model and her mother, “Real Housewives” star Yolanda Hadid, that she had never altered her face through surgery or fillers. And while side-by-side photos of Hadid as a pre-fame teenager and an adult have long fueled surgery rumors, she’s never previously admitted going under the knife. But as she told Vogue, the decision she made at 14 — with her parents’ consent — still haunts her. In 2020, there were 229,000 cosmetic procedures performed on adolescents, including 88,000 surgeries, per the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons’ Plastic Surgery Statistics Report. Nose jobs were by far the most popular choice, with over 44,686 teenage procedures recorded. Paparazzi photos of her tiny sunglasses or ‘90s shoulder bags have helped popularize nostalgic fashion trends, and as she acknowledged to Vogue, her style is so widely imitated that she can look outside and “see a hundred people dressed exactly like me.” Even those who don’t follow her on social media may still be subliminally affected by her fashion. In the interview, Hadid admitted for the first time publicly (after years of intensive media speculation and her own insistent denials) that she did indeed have a nose job at 14, explaining that she underwent the procedure after always feeling “uglier” than her older sister, fellow supermodel Gigi. Considering how few celebrities — especially models like Hadid — openly cop to having work done, that honesty alone is significant.