Linda Evangelista Poses For ‘British Vogue’, Admits ‘That’s Not My Jaw And Neck In Real Life’ As She Reflects On Procedure That Left Her ‘Permanently Deformed’
18.08.2022 - 17:09
/ etcanada.com
Linda Evangelista poses for British Vogue in a stunning new photo shoot after settling her lawsuit against Zeltiq CoolSculpting.
The Canadian-born supermodel, 57, from St. Catharines, ON, previously opened up about a fat-freezing producedure leaving her “brutally disfigured.”
Evangelista looks like she’s back to her confident self in the new shoot, but she’s keen to make it clear that make-up artist Pat McGrath gently drew her face, jaw and neck back with tape and elastics.
She insists, “That’s not my jaw and neck in real life – and I can’t walk around with tape and elastics everywhere. You know what, I’m trying to love myself as I am, but for the photos.
“Look, for photos I always think we’re here to create fantasies. We’re creating dreams. I think it’s allowed. Also, all my insecurities are taken care of in these pictures, so I got to do what I love to do.”
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Evangelista, who recently posed for a Fendi campaign as well, is reluctant to call this a comeback, highlighting the fact that she’s almost entirely covered in the shots.
She tells the magazine, “Am I cured mentally? Absolutely not. But I’m so grateful for the support I got from my friends and from my industry… You’re not going to see me in a swimsuit, that’s for sure. It’s going to be difficult to find jobs with things protruding from me; without retouching, or squeezing into things, or taping things or compressing or tricking…”
Evangelista goes into further detail about hitting rock bottom after trying to correct what the procedure had done to her with liposuction, twice.
She says, “I have incisions all over my body. I have had stitches, I have