If Lifetime holiday movies have taught us anything, it’s that a change of context can prove extremely romantic. Sometimes it’s a buttoned-up big city attorney who falls in love with the hunky, small-town Christmas tree farm owner whose livelihood she has to help save for some reason that’s never properly explained—and sometimes it’s Bella Hadid taking a break from the glamour (and pressure) of supermodel life and moving into a trailer with her boyfriend, cowboy Adan Banuelos, earlier in their relationship.
“She did do the fifth wheel, happily. It was badass,” Banuelos recently said on Andrea Fappani’s Along for the Ride podcast. “You know, you start having feelings for somebody and you start thinking things about like, Man, maybe this is the rest of my life here, and knowing that she is that simple of a human being, that the material things aren’t important, or the most important thing…and being that consistent and uplifting and positive and warm to everybody she meets…it’s just freaking amazing.” Again, this is the lesson that literally every Lifetime protagonist learns in the third act, but I still can’t help being into it for Hadid.
Of course, nobody could accuse Hadid of phoning in the cowgirl bit; she’s an accomplished equestrian who recently purchased a home in Banuelos’s home city of Fort Worth, Texas—not even liberal-hippie Austin! Still, the idea of her waking up in Banuelos’s trailer at 2:30 a.m. and happily “bringing everyone breakfast” before a long day of horse sports (sorry, I don’t know the proper equine words) is deeply charming. I know genuinely stanning celebrity relationships is a bit of a fool’s errand, but I love Hadid and Banuelos’s down-home energy nonetheless.
