Cara Delevingne has spoken to WSJ magazine about the fashion industry’s obsession with weight, and we can sort of see why she wanted to move into acting. Nobody wants calls saying they’ve been partying too much and got too fat – that sort of stuff is bound to make you consider a career change.
‘It's horrible living in a world where I'll get a call from someone saying, “So-and-so says you were partying a lot and you were looking this way and you need to lose weight,”’ she told the magazine in a cover interview. ‘It makes me so angry. If you don't want to hire me, don't hire me.’
While it seems that the acting world is full of incredibly pretty, very slim women (and Cara is no exception, obviously), she went on to describe how it’s a lot more relaxed than modelling: ‘With acting, the last thing you do is try to look pretty. Modeling actually makes acting harder – it makes you so self-aware.’
Currently undergoing intense fight training for her upcoming role in Suicide Squad (alongside Jared Leto and Margot Robbie), she eats oysters, fried chicken buns, broccoli with sausage, a pork chop, and a hanger steak during the interview in classic ‘eating during an interview’ style. But something tells us that Cara D doesn’t put it on, and that when she tells the reporter ‘I’m so hungry I’m going to cry,’ she means it. Which is sort of refreshing.
As refreshing as her refusal to take sexy selfies on her insta page, like so many people. ‘People see a pretty girl, and they expect to see a pretty face,’ she says. ‘I’m not going to do that.’
Good on you, Cara.
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