Supermodel Linda Evangelista says fat-reduction left her ‘deformed’
- The fashion icon says she had a ‘CoolSculpting’ procedure 5 years ago that had the rare side effect of causing her fat cells to increase rather than decrease
- Evangelista, who is suing the company, said the botched job has turned her into a depressed recluse ridden with self-loathing, her livelihood destroyed
Former supermodel Linda Evangelista says she has been permanently disfigured by a fat-reduction cosmetic procedure that backfired and caused her to look bloated and unrecognisable.
Evangelista, 56, said she underwent “CoolSculpting” five years ago and that it had the rare side effect of causing her fat cells to increase rather than decrease.
Evangelista, a 1990s modelling icon from Canada who starred on catwalks with colleagues like Cindy Crawford and Naomi Campbell, said in an Instagram post on Wednesday that she was never warned of the procedure’s risks and is now filing a lawsuit.
She said her current appearance – the result of a condition called paradoxical adipose hyperplasia – explained her absence from the public spotlight in recent years.
“To my followers who have wondered why I have not been working while my peers’ careers have been thriving, the reason is that I was brutally disfigured by Zeltiq’s CoolSculpting procedure which did the opposite of what it promised,” Evangelista wrote.
