Linda Evangelista Speaks Out About Her Plastic Surgery Nightmare: 'I'm Done Hiding'
16.02.2022 - 17:51
/ justjared.com
Linda Evangelista is sharing her story.
Late last year, the 56-year-old model revealed she had been “permanently deformed” after undergoing the fat-reduction procedure CoolSculpting.
In a new interview with People, Linda opened up about the emotional and physical pain the aftermath of the procedure has caused.
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“I loved being up on the catwalk. Now I dread running into someone I know,” she told the outlet. “I can’t live like this anymore, in hiding and shame. I just couldn’t live in this pain any longer. I’m willing to finally speak.”
Three months after receiving CoolSculpting procedure, Linda began to notice bulges at her chin, thighs and bra area. The areas she had been looking to treat were growing larger and hardening, until suddenly they went numb.
“I tried to fix it myself, thinking I was doing something wrong,” she said. “I got to where I wasn’t eating at all. I thought I was losing my mind.”
She consulted a doctor about the issue in June 2016. “I dropped my robe for him,” she recalled. “I was bawling, and I said, ‘I haven’t eaten, I’m starving. What am I doing wrong?’ ” When he diagnosed her with Paradoxical adipose hyperplasia (PAH), she says, “I was like, ‘What the hell is that?’ And he told me no amount of dieting, and no amount of exercise was ever going to fix it.”
PAH is a side effect that affects less than 1 percent of CoolSculpting patients, where the freezing process causes fatty tissue to thicken and expand.
Linda claims that when her doctor contacted CoolSculpting about her PAH, the company offered to pay for liposuction in order to “make it right.” In her suit, the model says that the night before her liposuction procedure, she was told that Coolsculpting’s parent