Via: bbc.co.uk
Here is the statement Cara delivered on her background at the 2015 Women in the World summit.
“I think I pushed myself so far [at school] that I got to the point where I had a mental breakdown … I was completely suicidal, I didn’t want to live any more. I thought that I was completely alone. I also realised how lucky I was, and what a wonderful family and wonderful friends I had, but that didn’t matter. I wanted the world to swallow me up, and nothing seemed better to me than death.”
She then summed it all up with this pithy Instagram picture:
Via: buzzfeed.com