Camila Cabello Covers the October Issue of ELLE

Camila Cabello is on the cover of ELLE magazine! The singer is on the cover of the magazine’s upcoming October issue.

In the issue, Camila talks finding herself, her battle with obsessive-compulsive disorder, Shawn Mendes, her new album, working with Ed Sheeran and so much more. Highlights can be found below.

On finding herself after the release of “Havana”: “I think I just know myself more. I’m more gentle with myself. I think I naturally have less anxiety now, because I realized that so many of the things that brought it on weren’t so scary after all.”

On how her obsessive-compulsive disorder worsened towards the end of her time with Fifth Harmony: “The compulsive behavior happened to me as far back as elementary school. But the OCD, the more difficult side of it, came full swing at the end of my time with the group. I was under insane amounts of stress, and it was too much anxiety for me to handle; it turned into OCD. I’ve never taken medicine. I learned a lot of self-soothing and coping mechanisms to rewire my brain along the way. I think learning how to navigate it and be gentle with it—and even love it—makes you a better person in the end.”

On working with Shawn Mendes on “Senorita”: “I mean, I love him. We have always connected; we have the best time together. Shawn texted me the idea for the chorus for ‘Señorita.’ He was like, ‘Hey, what if we work on this and do it together?’ I was on the Taylor Swift tour and hadn’t been in the studio for a while. I didn’t want to do it, and then a few months later, I couldn’t get the song out of my head. I [ finally] told him, ‘I think we should do this.’ He was like, ‘I don’t want to do it anymore.’ It went back and forth for, like, eight months. Then we finally went into the studio and reworked it so we both felt good about it, without any pressure. I love working with him so much.”

You can read her full interview here. What a great interview!

Source: ELLE