Everybody faces a something no one else knows about.
And since May is Mental Health Awareness month, we think this is the perfect opportunity for Camila Cabello to open up about her struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder!
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As Cosmo UK‘s June cover star, the 21-year-old got real about how she’s coped with living with OCD. The former Fifth Harmony member explained:
“OCD is weird. I laugh about it now. Everybody has different ways of handling stress. And, for me, if I get really stressed thinking about something, I’ll start to have the same thought over and over again, and no matter how many times I get to the resolution, I feel like something bad is about to happen if I don’t keep thinking about it. I didn’t know what it was and when I found out, and [learned] how to step back from it, it made me feel so much better. I feel so much more in control of it now. To the point where I’m just like, ‘Aha! OK, this is just my OCD.’ I’ll ask my mom a question for the fourth time, and she’ll be like, ‘That’s OCD. You’ve got to let it go.'”
Fortunately, she has a good crew (including her mother!) around her on tour to keep her grounded:
“It’s the hardest part–being away from my family. I would never want to move to LA because I can’t live away from them. [So, when she travels, her mom goes with her] It’s really nice, she’s my best friend. My other half. There’s something about being with your mom. You just feel like a kid. And your family doesn’t care if you’ve messed up or you flopped or if your song tanked. They love you no matter what and that’s so important to me.”
Elsewhere in the interview, the Havana singer explained that money is NOT her motivation to creating music:
“I hate the word ‘money’. I just don’t…my worst fear is making an album for it to sell a lot or be super successful. I don’t want to be the person that’s making songs in the studio saying, ‘Radio is going to love this’ or ‘We’re going to be rich after this song,'” she explains. “That’s just so cringey to me. Because, for me, music is not my business, it’s my life. I just need enough to make my family and me good and comfortable, and that’s been such a huge blessing for me to be able to do that for them.”
What a good soul! That’s so refreshing to hear.
Ch-ch-check out her beautiful cover (below)!!
Say hello to our June cover star – the amazing @camila_cabello! The new issue is out tomorrow ├ó┬¥┬ñ├»┬╕┬ÅA post shared by Cosmopolitan UK (@cosmopolitanuk) on Apr 30, 2018 at 11:33pm PDT
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