Time will set the pace of this conversation with chloe bello. As soon as the interview starts, he remembers that the last time she gave an article to this magazine, she would have been about 18 or 20 years old. By then, she was a model already working in Europe. That’s what she’s been doing for a long time. A few days after her birthday, she does not want to have anything to do with the number that she is going to release, and that she leaves her closer to a round figure that she directly refuses to name. “How horrible, it is a number that is harassing me. It is very strange, because I still feel 20. Time flies by, ”she says. Time passes quickly, but leaves a mark.
News: Let’s not talk about age but about the route. What do you remember about that 18-year-old girl that she was?
Chloe Belle: I really at that age is like the world ate me. Logically, security is created over time, over the years, that is real, it is normal, it is experience. Oh well, she was very rebellious, she was politically incorrect. She was working a lot as a model, and she was already talking about anorexia in the fashion world, something she started talking about much later. I always liked to go straight and with the truth. And mostly I did it because I know a lot of the girls I worked with were eating two almonds a day and they were living on a diet and they were skeletons and they were suffering.
News: Didn’t make you want to kick the board?
Bello: Yes, I retired quite young, actually. At 28, I kicked everyone in the ass and said “I don’t want to do this anymore”. I rebelled, I did not agree. I ended up fighting with the best agency in the world, I remember that it was a very violent fight because I told them that I was not going to lose a single kilo, that is, I weighed, I don’t know, 54 kilos and they wanted me to lose 50 kilos, in a person of a 1.80 meter, it is sick.
News: Did you alone put the points to the agency?
Beautiful: Yes, I was very young, I wasn’t even 20. My agency also encouraged me to come down, they told me how could I lose those jobs, that they were the best. It really went against my principles. And well, I managed to accept the proposals that were more in accordance with my body.
News: What was her intention: did she want to be famous, to gain significance, to make money?
Beautiful: No, I wanted to earn money. I didn’t really like the job, I’ve gotten to fight a lot in productions because they told you: “Jump, put this on, do that”, and at one point I told them: “I’m not a marmoset.” There is a lot of abuse. Many times I withdrew from my studies because I couldn’t accept it, no matter how much you tell me that there is all the money in the world, it is stronger than me. My agents wanted to kill me because they told me that it was the opportunity. And at 27, 28, she could have kept working, but she just wasn’t comfortable anymore. I decided to leave everything and I began to travel, to rediscover myself, I had also lost a lot in that maelstrom. I dedicated myself to traveling, studying acting in Los Angeles and New York with Stella Adler.
News: What results did you get from betting on acting?
Beautiful: Look, what I did was study, study and study, I took many courses. I had the opportunity to record outside with Abel Ferrara, who is a total boon, we made a short. Later I came and made a film here, “Resentimental”. I also worked with John Cusack, in “We are not animals”, and I had to share all the scenes. I learned a lot from him, we hit it off very well, he asked me to do his makeup, I’m flirty bad. And recently I did a series, “Limbo”, a small role, but I was playing a Russian so I had to learn Russian words. I also starred in a segment for TV Publica with Jorge Marrale. They are principles, I am very new actually. I recently returned a bit to resume what Buenos Aires is, I left at 22, almost 23 years old, and I did not return.
She is also taking her first steps as a director, since she is doing the pre-production of the documentary on “Dog and cat meat trafficking in Southeast Asia” that began in Bali and Thailand and will continue in other countries.
News: How did you achieve a fluid bond with Oliver Stone? There must be something in you to magnetize these great figures.
Beautiful: Yeah, he became like a guy. I almost made a movie with him that was canceled at the last minute, it was going to be a great movie that was half his autobiography and I was going to be one of his girlfriends. All the scripts that he was doing at that time he sent me so that I could read them.
News: Did leaving Argentina have to do with preserving yourself?
Beautiful: Yes, obviously, totally, without a doubt, psychologically I needed to be able to take care of myself because it was clearly delusional.
That delirium that took her away from Argentina had to do with the fact that she was Gustavo Cerati’s girlfriend at the time of the stroke that the singer suffered in 2010. A year ago, in an interview with Matías Martín, she decided to talk about the subject as she had not done before. never.
News: How did opening up like that affect you internally?
Beautiful: I was used to being beaten up by people and the response I received was very supportive, it was very exciting. What I said was the tip of the iceberg.
News: A year later, do you feel like going deeper?
Beautiful: No, I don’t want to focus the note on Gustavo. I loved him very much and I’m going to love him for the rest of my life, but… oh, don’t put this as a title for me, please.
News: It’s very hard to publicly detach from the subject, isn’t it?
Beautiful: It’s unbearable and I swear it was one of the reasons why I didn’t want to go out with him at first, because I had an impressive career, really very good and for me very respectable and I didn’t want to end up as the girlfriend of. Obviously he is, was, much more important than me, but I didn’t really want that to happen and well, he ended up coming out in a different way. Unfortunately, today it is very difficult for him to write a note and not refer to the ex’s.
News: She went from being “the girlfriend of” to “the last girlfriend of.”
Beautiful: Sure, the last girlfriend. At some point, I think I’m going to have to speak up because I think there’s so much bad information out there. The whole story is completely distorted and I wish I could tell my truth. The journalists pointed their fingers at me in a ridiculous way, blaming a 22-year-old girl for something that a 28-year-old guy like Gustavo did. It was a great love story, really. It was all very fast, like Romeo and Juliet, which was one of the greatest love stories in the world and lasted three days. But I don’t want to talk so much about Gustavo, obviously he was very important to me and he still is, but I’m trying to get out of that a bit and build my new career.
News: He was 22 years old when Gustavo died. With the magnitude of that love and that unexpected and heartbreaking end, did it cost you depression?
Beautiful: Yes, the pain continues to this day, I continue to suffer it, this is not something that disappeared because the years passed. I remember it absolutely every day and it’s still a big hole inside me. It is as if it had happened yesterday, it is very crazy and you have to move on but it is also very difficult, when you do not separate on your own initiative, it romanticizes everything that could have been, we were at the height of our relationship.
News: How did it go ahead?
Beautiful 😛First it was to disappear from here, because I couldn’t get into a taxi without listening to his music, seeing his posters. It is also very difficult to go through a duel when the person is so well known. To this day, it is very difficult for me to be in Buenos Aires because I get into a taxi and it is at full volume. But I’m trying to make friends with the city, that’s why I wanted to do the series again and in November, I’m going to do Microteatro. It’s a bit like making friends with the city and with the misfortune I had to live with. Time passes, things happen, it is difficult but there is no other choice but to move on. Before, I didn’t come for more than two or three weeks and now I’ve been here for three months and I’m feeling fine, I am rediscovering myself and making friends with a past and with a lot of things that I had avoided before. At my age and with what I’m trying to do, which is to enter the world of acting, it seems to me that it is healthy to heal wounds.
News: The 18-year-old wanted to earn money. What does the 35 want?
Bello: First, inner peace. It seems to me that it is very important, beyond work and beyond money, fortune, fame, it seems to me that all of this is ephemeral. With the passage of time you find yourself in certain things, you see your character defects, you find out a little about who you are. We are all looking for inner peace, even if it seems that we are barbaric on the outside. hOh, you have to be very good with people because you don’t know what’s happening inside. You have to be kinder. I don’t want to play Buddhist or anything, but I’m kind of connecting with that side, you saw that with age you get a little more humble, you have to be humble, it seems to me.
Time passed. And it’s not just more years, it’s also traveled.
Acknowledgment: Hotel InterContinental Buenos Aires.
