Updated 6/25/18 with entire 'Cool Change' editorial and some of the best personal shots of Gigi Hadid ever.

Supermodel Gigi Hadid covers the July 2018 issue of Vogue Australia, lensed by Giampaolo Sgura, with styling by Christine Centenera./ Makeup by Gucci Westman; hair by Peter Gray

"There is no handbook for being in the spotlight."

Interviewed by Zara Wong, Gigi Hadid channels the same self-reflective thoughts expressed by Kendall Jenner. As a fast-rise Instagirls, Hadid knows that she is the product of a love/hate social media echo chamber, one "as unreal as Donald Trump's hair", in the words of VICE.

Hadid has learned that this echo chamber can turn on a girl quickly -- like when a 3 second video of Gigi doing what models, assuming the pose in eating a fortune cookie sent the Internet into apoplexy, got her condemned as a racist and the subject of demands that she be banned from the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in Shanghai.

Gigi speaks of none of these matters directly. But it's clear that she is learning to fight for herself and for her own integrity. Take privilege, for example. Hadid hits it head on:

“I know I come from privilege, so when I started there was this big guilt of privilege, obviously,” says Hadid. “I’ve always had this big work ethic, because my parents came from nothing and I worked hard to honour them.” Hadid recalled how as a young model, her mother would send money earnt from modelling in the US to her family back home in Holland. “There are so many girls who come [from] all over the world and work their arses off and send money home to their families like my mother did, and I wanted to stand next to them backstage and for them to look at me and respect me and to know that it’s never about me trying to overshadow or take their place. So when I started out I wanted to prove myself so badly that sometimes I would overwork myself.”

Most recently, Hadid was in hot water for posting that the Palestinians and Israelis must coexist without violence. Bad, bad Gigi. Hadid's response is probably similar to Gisele's last week, in the furor over her Vogue US cover story. She basically said that she couldn't cope with what the young models endure in the social media limelight. The rest was all about good energy, sustainability, teaching our kids to listen to and respect Mother Earth.

“Social media is one of the most frustrating and twisted things … everything’s taken and read the wrong way because tweets can never show real depth,” Hadid tweeted after the furore.

She spoke philosophically to Vogue the day after the tweets, and was more contemplative. “There’s a tug of war between who you are and what you feel naturally passionate about and wanting to stand up for yourself, then also understanding that you can’t please everyone and that you need to protect yourself in a way.” Read on at Vogue Australia.