Gigi Hadid is opening up about being probably harder on her body and appearance during her early modeling years.

The 27-year-old expressed love for her body and what it has done but admitted to The Sunday Times that she once had routined eating habits.

When I started out, I was a heavily trained volleyball player, and I had a certain body type from that, Hadid told the outlet. At that time, fashion hadnt started to get into a more inclusive body-image conversation.

The model continued, I was probably harder on my body than I should have been. I wasnt starving myself, but I was very routined, adding, Since then, Ive got into this idea of body neutrality. I love my body for what it has done, but Im not obsessed with it.

Her mother, Yolanda Hadid , who starred in three seasons of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills , was once a world-renowned model. However, Yolanda has gotten a bit of heat over the years from the various scenes on the reality show where she commented on Gigis weight and physical appearance.

Gigis in charge of her own diet, but to be on your best weight, you gotta make the right choices, Yolanda said in an episode where she appeared to grow frustrated with her daughter for eating a piece of cake.

In October, Yolanda addressed a viral clip from 2013 where she told her daughter to have a couple of almonds during a phone call where Gigi said she felt really weak from hunger.