Gigi Hadid was apparently forced to examine her weight after being criticized by modeling agencies for not being thin enough.
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"My thighs were huge, they were like rock!" Hadid explained.
"I had like crazy muscles and I [ate] like a man -- more than the man that I eat like now, like a bigger man -- and it was crazy, but at the time I didn't care what my body looked like, I just wanted to be the best volleyball player I could be so it didn't really matter to me."
But after the critique became repetitive, the Guess and Tom Ford model couldn't help but care.
"A lot of them were like, 'You have to lose a lot of weight.' I would cry at night and my mom would be like, 'We're going to find the right people,'" Hadid told Daily Mail.
"It's funny because once you start to embrace what you have, it starts to be what you're known for. I'm kind of the model that everyone thought would always be the Guess, Sports Illustrated girl, then when I started to do high fashion stuff... people were like, 'Oh so we can have a girl with like thighs and a butt in a Tom Ford campaign, cool.'"
Joe Jonas' girlfriend and Kendall Jenner's good friend won't push herself to conform to the typical model-industry standards, but she still reportedly has to be careful when it comes to nutrition and exercise.
"Once I started modeling, one of my things was like, 'Yeah, I don't need to be a man volleyball player but I also don't want to be like two pounds soaking wet,'" Hadid explained. "And that's always something that I was very strong minded about, I just want to be a healthy role model and I haven't swayed from that at all."
Hadid has made guest appearances on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, which just wrapped its fifth season in late April.
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