You'd better not tell Cara Delevingne what to do and more importantly, what she should look like.
The 22-year-old British supermodel and actress, who has always appeared slim, talked about the pressures of the modeling world in an interview with WSJ. magazine, posted online Thursday before the June Pre-Fall Fashion/Collectibles issue issue hits newsstands on May 30.
"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 said, talking about the fashion industry. "It makes me so angry. If you don't want to hire me, don't hire me."
The supermodel had talked about her body insecurities in a 2013 interview with i-D magazine, saying, "I'd like to be curvier."
Delevingne showcases her own, quirky personality while working in front of the camera, sometimes making silly faces during photo shoots and public appearances. And, of course, in pics she shares with her more than 12.7 million followers.
"People see a pretty girl, and they expect to see a pretty face," she told WSJ. "I'm not going to do that."
And to break more modeling stereotypes, she's not afraid to be around food, too. Here she is holding a slice of pizza at a hockey game.
Her interview with WSJ. took place at a restaurant in Toronto. She ordered for herself and the reporter oysters, fried chicken buns, broccoli with sausage, a pork chop and a hanger steak, according to the magazine.
"I'm so hungry, I'm going to cry," she was quoted as saying.
The supermodel had a day earlier undergone "intense fight training" for her latest film, the anticipated DC supervillain movie Suicide Squad, which marks her biggest onscreen role. She plays the Enchantress, opposite actors such as Jared Leto, who plays The Joker, and The Wolf of Wall Street actress Margot Robbie, who plays his love interest, Harley Quinn. The cast members are almost unrecognizable in their roles.
"With acting, the last thing you do is try to look pretty," Delevingne told WSJ. "Modeling actually makes acting harder—it makes you so self-aware."
Delevingne also recently filmed several other films, such as Pan, a new Peter Pan adaptation that sees her playing a mermaid, and the mystery romance Paper Towns, in which she plays a major character, Margo Roth Spiegelman, a girl who's gone missing.
"When I was modeling, all I was thinking about was that moment, that day, the next hour," she told WSJ.. "When I started chilling out and learning to say no, I realized that there was a future and I could do more stuff."
WSJ. reported that Delevingne has cut back on drinking and focused on getting in shape.
"I've never been so good," she said. "When I started looking after myself, that's when I started getting acting roles."