Camila Cabello Opens Up About Shawn Mendes in Elle Magazine!

In a new interview with ELLE Magazine, Camila Cabello is opening up about her relationship with rumoured boyfriend, Shawn Mendes.

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Camila, who is also on the magazine’s cover, explains, “Love is the most sacred, precious thing to me.  I want to always feel like my love is between me and that person, and never belonging to anyone else. As much as I love my fans, and as much as I love people, I like to live my life as normally as possible. In a relationship, it makes me feel uncomfortable to invite everyone in on that.”  When ELLE asked Camila about the heavy buzz around her and Shawn Mendes, Camila says, “People can say whatever they want to say.  They can speculate, but at the same time, we are going to live our own lives, enjoy it, and fall for each other like nobody is watching. That is how I want to live. I never want to open the door for people to feel like they are involved. Like I said, I want it to be mine and [his]. That’s why I’m so tight-lipped about it: because I want to protect it.”

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Camila and Shawn have known one another for five years now and since dropping their steamy collab Senorita, they have been spotted in Toronto, New York, Miami, San Francisco and Montreal holding hands, kissing and hugging.  Camila says, “I mean, I love him.  We have always connected; we have the best time together. Shawn texted me the idea for the chorus for ‘Sen?orita.’ He was like, ‘Hey, what if we work on this and do it together?’ I was on the Taylor Swift tour and hadn’t been in the studio for a while. I didn’t want to do it, and then a few months later, I couldn’t get the song out of my head.  I [finally] told him, ‘I think we should do this.’  He was like, ‘I don’t want to do it anymore.’ It went back and forth for, like, eight months. Then we finally went into the studio and reworked it so we both felt good about it, without any pressure. I love working with him so much.”

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And heads up – Camila teased a new project called Romance and it’s rumoured to be her sophomore album, “Honestly, this past year and a half was the first time I really experienced falling in love with another person.  I think there is so much more depth to love when you know you are in it with another person. You have so much more to say — I think that’s what makes me emotional.”

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When ELLE asked if Camila ‘had been in love before,’ Camila revealed,  “No, I hadn’t.  I’ve loved people from afar, but falling in love with someone and having feelings for someone but they don’t know. … It’s different.”

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While chatting with ELLE and as one of their Women in Music cover stars, Camila had to sing a song that included a word which was given by ELLE.com and all in 10 seconds.  Camila took on Mariah Carey’s Emotions, 50 Cent’s Candy Shop, followed with songs by Justin Bieber and Celine Dion.  Watch below.

For the October issue of ELLE Magazine which, will be available as of Sept. 24, there are three separate covers – one with Lizzo, another with Billie Eilish and then the issue with Camila.

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Read Camila’s full interview here.