Gigi Hadid Shares a Sneaky Social Media PSA With Her Phone Sticker

Little touches matter. Gigi Hadid knows this, so she walked out in front of paparazzi carrying a purse, her phone, and a sticker on its case with a succinct warning label about the dangers of the internet.

"Social media seriously harms your mental health," it reads if you zoom in.

It's unclear whether this note was a personal reminder to herself—and a deterrent to hop on Instagram, Twitter, and the like—or a PSA to everyone. But a statement piece is a statement piece. (It's a phone case from Urban Sophistication and available for $35 to purchase here.)

Hadid has also been vocal about how social media has affected her. She's taken month-long social media breaks before to refresh. In December 2016, she explained why she does the ritual. "I'm taking a month off, actually, during New Years," she said then. "I'm not deleting my account, I'm just taking the apps off my phone. It's empowering, not just for people in the spotlight, for everyone. At the end of the day I'm choosing what I'm showing you. A lot of the world feels so entitled to other peoples' lives, which is so crazy. I'm going to take a break when I feel like it, and when I come back and share it with you, if you want to be supportive and still follow me, that's great. But, if you're going to be upset that I need to be human for a month, than maybe I don't want your follow anyway."

Hadid most recently spoke out against internet trolls who speculated the reason behind her skinnier appearance. In so doing, she announced that she has Hashimoto's disease, an autoimmune disorder where the body creates antibodies that attack the thyroid gland. In a series of tweets, she wrote:

For those of you so determined to come up w why my body has changed over the years, you may not know that when I started at 17, I was not yet diagnosed with Hashimoto’s disease; those of you who called me “too big for the industry” were seeing inflammation and water retention due to that.

Over the last few years, I’ve been properly medicated to help symptoms including those, as well as extreme fatigue, metabolism issues, body’s ability to retain heat, etc ... I was also part of a holistic medical trial that helped my thyroid levels balance out. Although stress and excessive travel can also affect the body, I have always eaten the same; my body just handles it differently now that my health is better. I may be "too skinny" for you, honestly this skinny isn’t what I want to be, but I feel healthier internally and am still learning and growing with my body everyday, as everyone is.

I will not further explain the way my body looks, just as anyone, with a body type that doesn't suit your "beauty" expectation, shouldn't have to. Not to judge others, but drugs are not my thing, stop putting me in that box just because you don't understand the way my body has matured.

Please, as social media users and human beings in general, learn to have more empathy for others and know that you never really know the whole story. Use your energy to lift those that you admire rather than be cruel to those you don’t.