Linda Evangelista
She shows her “disfigured” body
Linda Evangelista
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Linda Evangelista has withdrawn from the public for almost five years. The reason for this: Beauty interventions have “disfigured” her, according to her own statement. Now the former supermodel is putting an end to the game of hide-and-seek. In the American “People” magazine, she not only tells her story, she also shows what the cosmetic surgery has done to her and her body.
Linda Evangelista, 56, was one of the famous top models of the 90s. While her colleagues are still in the limelight, things have gone quiet about the native Canadian. For almost five years she has withdrawn from the public, neither appeared at events nor was she photographed privately by paparazzi. In September last year, she made the reason for this public in a detailed Instagram post. A beauty method for treating fatty tissue “brutally disfigured” her and “destroyed her existence”.
Now the 56-year-old is turning to the public again. In “People” magazine she tells what happened to her and shows her “disfigured” body.
Linda Evangelista: CoolSculpting ruined her life
Evangelista blames coolsculpting, a popular fat reduction method, for her “disfigured” appearance. From August 2015 to February 2016, she underwent seven treatments in a dermatologist’s office, and since then nothing has been the same.
“I loved walking the runway. Now I dread walking into someone I know. I can’t live like this anymore, in hiding and shame,” the former model told People. . Three months after the treatment, she noticed “bulges on her chin, thighs and bra area.” She tried to counteract this with sport and diets – without success. Two other cosmetic procedures that the company CoolSculpting wanted to have performed by a surgeon of their choice were also unsuccessful. After the operation, she had to wear compression clothing, a bodice and a chin strap for eight weeks – the bumps came back. “It wasn’t even a tiny bit better,” she says. “The bumps are rock hard. If I walk in a dress without a bodice, I have chafing that almost bleeds.”
I don’t look in the mirror. I don’t look like myself anymore.
In “People” magazine she now shows her new body openly. She no longer wants to hide, encourage other women. And she wants her life back.
Top model fights for her rights and for her life in court
Linda Evangelista is in litigation with CoolSculpting. She fights for the company to acknowledge that it made a mistake. As much as you wish her to be right, one can hope that she learns to love her body – even with the blemishes left by the procedure. This is more than difficult for her, as she says herself: “I don’t recognize myself physically, but I no longer recognize myself as a person either. She (Linda Evangelista, the supermodel, editor’s note) has somehow disappeared .”
This article first appeared on gala.de
Source used: people.com