Love Island’s Belle Hassan has opened up about self-harming at the age of 13 due to bullying at school. The 23-year-old told the The Sun that she “went through a very long stage of hating everything” about herself, and that she was unable to look at herself in the mirror because she was disgusted with herself.
Belle said that the self-hatred and self-harming began when she was 13 and continued until the age of 19.She said: “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 hid her self-harming using clothes that covered up her scars so that her family, including actor father Tamer Hassan, 53, would not know and ask.
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