The 21-year-old model says she didn't want to lose weight for the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, but the meds she takes for her thyroid disease can cause weight loss.
- Dec 9, 2016
AceShowbiz - Haters are gonna hate. Gigi Hadid was once called too fat for a model and now that she has shown a skinnier figure, she's called too thin. The 21-year-old showed major weight loss when she stripped down to sexy lingerie at Victoria's Secret Fashion Show last November. In a new interview with Elle, she explains what happened to her body.
"My metabolism actually changed like crazy this year," she admits. The girlfriend of Zayn Malik reveals that she has a thyroid condition and the meds she takes for the disease has indirectly caused the dramatic change in her body.
"I have Hashimoto's disease. It's a thyroid disease, and it's now been two years since taking the medication for it," she says, "so for the VS show I didn't want to lose any more weight, I just want to have muscles in the right place, and if my butt can get a little perkier, then that's good."
Hashimoto's disease is a form of hypothyroidism that slows down your metabolism and can cause sluggishness, weight gain, depression and more. The disease is typically treated with synthetic hormones that speed up the metabolism, which can cause weight loss.
The blonde beauty also announces her plan to take a social media break over the holidays. "I'm taking a month off, actually, during New Years. I'm not deleting my account, I'm just taking the apps off my phone," she says.
She continues, "It's empowering, not just for people in the spotlight, for everyone. At the end of the day I'm choosing what I'm showing you. A lot of the world feels so entitled to other peoples' lives, which is so crazy. I'm going to take a break when I feel like it, and when I come back and share it with you, if you want to be supportive and still follow me, that's great. But, if you're going to be upset that I need to be human for a month, than maybe I don't want your follow anyway."
Of being named "Model of the Year", she thinks it's because of her attitude at works rather than because of her photos. "That was voted on by 1000 people that I worked with this year, and I don't think half of them said, 'Gigi's pictures were the best of my pictures this years,' but maybe they said, 'I had a great day shooting with Gigi. She gave all her energy. She really tried to understand the concept, and showed interest,' " she says. "I hope that's 50 percent of why I got the award, not just the pictures."
