Camila Cabello recalls being 'cripplingly anxious' and starting therapy during the pandemic

• Camila Cabello opened up about her mental health in an interview with People.
• Cabello, 25, said she had "the worst mental state ever" and attended therapy.

Camila Cabello spoke about her mental health and getting help after feeling "cripplingly anxious."

In a recently published interview with People's Kay Adams, Cabello said she wasn't in a good headspace when she began recording her newly released album, "Familia."

"I was cripplingly anxious and was in the worst mental health state ever," Cabello, 25, told the outlet. "And then I took a break at the beginning of the pandemic. I started doing therapy [and] trying to feel better."

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Cabello added that she only wanted to do the process if it was "honest" and "vulnerable."

"For me, it was, if this process doesn't help me in feeling better, and if it's not me being honest and vulnerable and unfiltered, I don't really see how this is going to happen," Cabello told People. "That was my intention, was just to be myself, whatever that looked like at the time."

When asked how she's feeling now, Cabello told the outlet that she felt "amazing."

"I really feel like I'm living my truth and I'm speaking my truth," she added.

Representatives for Cabello did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

Cabello has championed being vulnerable in the public eye by being candid with her experiences. In May 2020, she told fans that she experienced OCD and "relentless anxiety."

"To put it simply, it made me feel like my mind was playing a cruel trick on me," she said.

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In July 2021, Cabello embraced her "cellulite and stretch marks and fat" in a viral TikTok video celebrating body acceptance.

Earlier this month she offered another introspective social media post where she reflected on her body image after she was photographed in a bikini by paparazzi in Miami, Florida.

"Somehow when I check in paps know and get me in my bikini and every time I've felt super vulnerable and unprepared," Cabello wrote. "I've worn bikinis that were to small and paid no mind to how I looked, then saw pictures online and comments and been so upset."