Cara Delevingne reveals the unique thing she does to lift her spirits when she is ‘having a bad day’

Cara Delevingne has revealed the unique thing she does to lift her spirits when she is ‘having a bad day’.

The model-turned-actress, 33, explained that she scrolls through fundraising pages when she would like to improve her mood.

She told Variety that she strolls GoFundMe pages, which are often set up to financially help people during a time of need, when she’s having a ‘s**tty day’.

‘I like seeing an actual dent that you can make to help someone,’ she told the publication.

Cara noted that she has been trying to use Instagram less, but can’t quite bring herself to delete it from her phone.

‘That algorithm is not meant for good things,’ she explained.

‘I haven’t gotten to the point where I’ve deleted Instagram off my phone yet, but I’m constantly working on self-control because I find myself going on there without even realising I am. It’s terrifying.’

Earlier in her career, Cara has bravely opened up about her mental health struggles as she admitted she had moments when she ‘had moments when she didn’t want to carry on’.

She likened being a teenager to feeling like she was on ‘a rollercoaster to hell’.

‘I’m not in hell now,’ she said on an episode of This Morning. ‘The things that stick with all of us the most are the darker times, the more traumatic times.’

‘Those are some of the points I remember the most. I didn’t know how to communicate my emotions. I was very ashamed of the way I felt.

‘I had a very privileged upbringing, I was very lucky, I went to an amazing school.

‘(But) I had depression and I had moments when I didn’t want to carry on. And then the guilt of feeling that way and not being able to tell anyone because I shouldn’t feel that way and I shouldn’t feel bad. It’s the guilt.’

‘That’s what I want to be for teenagers, not necessarily a role model, but someone who has been through it and come out the other side.’

The catwalk star was referring to comments she gave in an interview recently in which she opened up about her depression battle during her youth and admitted she ‘hated’ herself so much she ‘didn’t want to be alive anymore’.

She told the publication: ‘I hated myself for being depressed, I hated feeling depressed, I hated feeling.

‘I was very good at disassociating from emotion completely. And all the time I was second-guessing myself, saying something and then hating myself for saying it.

‘I didn’t understand what was happening apart from the fact that I didn’t want to be alive anymore. I wish I could have given myself a hug. I wish I’d known that I was still in there somewhere, that I wasn’t my own worst enemy, that I wasn’t trapped.

That if you can hold on for dear life – because being a teenager can feel like you’re on a rollercoaster to hell, that’s what it honestly felt like to me – you can get through it.’