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Bella Hadid recently made a striking appearance in London to promote her fragrance brand, Orabella, at Selfridges. The event was meant to be light-hearted, focused on perfumes and personal scent preferences, and started off that way. Bella shared her fragrance tips with ease, keeping the atmosphere warm and fun—until one question changed the tone.
When the interviewer asked, “What if I’m meeting up with a toxic ex? I want to make him want me back, what scent would be best for that and why?” Bella’s energy shifted. Looking straight into the camera, she responded with quiet intensity: “Don’t make up with your toxic ex. I’m not giving you any ideas with my fragrances of how to get your toxic ex back. We’re not doing that in 2025.” The message was clear: she wasn’t here to romanticize toxicity or feed into unhealthy cycles. The interviewer, sensing the shift, wrapped up the conversation shortly after.
Bella’s strong boundary isn’t surprising to those familiar with her past. In a 2022 episode of the Victoria’s Secret VS Voices podcast, she opened up about her history of emotionally harmful relationships and how her people-pleasing tendencies led her to tolerate abuse, from both men and women. She explained that over time, those blurred boundaries didn’t just affect her love life—they bled into her professional world too, where she began prioritizing others’ opinions over her own.
Her most publicly known relationship was with The Weeknd, whom she dated on and off from 2015 to 2019. The relationship, along with its entanglement with Selena Gomez, was widely covered and scrutinized in the media, but Bella has rarely spoken about it directly—choosing instead to reflect on broader patterns in her life and how she’s grown from them.
Now, she seems to be in a far more grounded and nurturing space. Since late 2023, she’s been dating Adan Banuelos, a respected horse trainer from Texas. When speaking to ELLE UK, Bella shared a sweet insight: her love language is food. When she’s home in Texas, she finds joy in cooking for those around her—especially her partner and his family. “I’m probably cooking 24/7 when I’m not working. I love to feed people,” she said, adding that she sees cooking as her primary way of expressing love.
From calling out toxic patterns to leaning into love and nourishment, Bella’s clarity and confidence in this new chapter show how far she’s come—and what she refuses to entertain anymore.