OHMYGOSSIP — Belle Hassan struggled with self-harm when she was a teenager.
The former ‘Love Island’ beauty admitted that she hated “everything” about herself growing up and she turned to self-harm as a way to get her “anger” out.
She said: “It started when I was around 13 and went on until I was 19. I went through a very long stage of hating everything about myself. For so many years, I’d look at myself in the mirror and think I was absolutely disgusting. I felt worthless and had all this anger I needed to let out. This is what gave me my release. But it was also about punishment because I hated myself so much. I hated myself for not being what I wanted to be, and self-harming became my way of expressing that pain.”
Belle recalls being told she was ugly by an ex and admits it changed what she thought of herself.
She added: “I had one of those silly relationships with a guy at school. He was lovely at first but when I split up with him he became really horrible and it affected my life terribly.
“He had to be removed from all my lessons because he was constantly abusing me, shouting things like, ‘You f****** s***’, and calling me ugly. When someone tells you that over and over at such a young age, you begin to believe it. My opinion about myself began to change.”
The 23-year-old star now expresses how she feels by talking about her emotions with family and friends.
She told The Sun newspaper: “Even now, when I get angry, I think, ‘Let’s not get myself in that mindset because you know where that can lead’. It’s learning how to control that snap of anger, so I’ll take myself for a walk or ring my mum or friend to talk about whatever is playing on my mind. Venting and expressing how I feel is like therapy for me. It’s more powerful than anything.”
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