Cara Delevingnes Singing Career Begins with Hiccups

After stints as a supermodel and actress, she’s just relaunched herself as a singer.

But it seems that ’s fledgling music career is off to a rather bumpy start, as she’s been forced to have emergency surgery just one day before the first date of her tour.

The former model, 33, who is due to perform in on Monday has revealed that she had to undergo root canal surgery after arriving in at the weekend.

She shared a dental X-ray of her teeth on her Instagram account and told her fans that a dentist had discovered an infection.

‘Landed in Berlin to find out I needed an emergency root canal to remove infection from my bone,’ she wrote alongside the picture.

But, in case fans were worried that she might have to miss out on her first ever headline show, she added: ‘The show must go on.’

Ms Delevingne has been locked in rehearsals for weeks ahead of her new tour, which will see her next perform on Wednesday at Barcelona’s La Nau and then on Friday as part of the line-up for the Primavera Sound festival.

She will then return to London for two dates at 26 Leake Street, before heading to Paris, Los Angeles, New York and then on to South America.  

Another star seemingly intent on reinvention, she announced new music I Forgot and Out of My Head last month, with a full album produced by Warner Music out later this summer.

Gone is the short blonde pixie cut she has been synonymous with, replaced by long, dark wavy hair and a moody, minimalist look.

‘I was in a couple bands during school, but whenever it came to the songs I’d written, I would lock myself in the bathroom and play them, because I just didn’t want anyone to listen,’ she told this month’s Vogue. ‘They were always for me.’

Music, she has now said, was her first love, and she wants this album to ‘feel like a rebirth’.

Ms Delevingne burst onto the fashion scene in her early 20s when she landed high-end fashion campaigns for Chanel, Burberry, Fendi and Miu Miu.

She became the It-girl of the fashion world and a fixture on the London party scene, before reinventing herself as an actress.

She delved into the acting world with roles in films Paper Towns, Suicide Squad and Valerian and also appeared in Cabaret in the West End in 2024.

Ms Delevingne has been sober since checking into rehab in 2022, after realising her partying was spiralling out of control while struggling to cope with her stratospheric rise to fame.