Cara Delevingne Quitting Modeling? Star Admits Industry Made Her Hate Herself

One of fashion’s most iconic models, Cara Delevingne, is leaving the runway to pursue her career as an actress.

In a new interview with London’s The Times, the 23-year-old has no problem proclaiming that she is “not doing fashion work anymore”. “And I kind of forgot how young I was…I felt so old”.

Looking back at some of her earlier shoots like that of Burberry 2011 campaign, the model said that she feels a sense of disgust at the poses that she was directed to take and the overall sexual nature of the images. Delevingne explains, “I was, like, fight and flight for months”. Despite brief flickers of a pulse (and an on-trend soundtrack), the whole thing just passes you by.

The punishing schedule led her to develop the painful skin condition psoriasis which had to be laboriously covered up in thick make-up. “It’s frightful and disgusting”, she told the magazine. You start when you are really young and… you get subjected to… not great stuff.

Remember that time Cara Delevingne dropped being a model from her resumé?

The young star will now be focused on her acting career.

Delevingne says modeling made her hate the way her body looked, due, in large part, to the unrealistic pressures put on those in the limelight. While Cara admits that the modeling profession left her feeling “hollow”, Ms. Delevingne says the stresses of modeling also affected her physically.

Cara recently revealed that her latest relationship with musician St Vincent has made her happier than ever.

Later, when I meet Delevingne properly, I mention that I had been looking at her face in the newspaper only few minutes before.

That may have been because the industry forced her to grow up too fast. “I have regained respect for myself, in a weird way, and on a movie set is where I feel like I belong”.

“We Are Your Friends” star Emily Ratajkowski has admitted she finds acting to be more “creatively fulfilling” than modelling.

What she promises though is that issues like these won’t just be brushed off. “If there is injustice I will flip out”.

Round-table interviews are never a journalist’s idea of fun, but given that everyone in the world wants to talk to John Green, they’re a necessary evil.