Linda Evangelista Says Cosmetic Procedure Left Her ‘Permanently Deformed’

Linda Evangelista says she’s stayed out of the highlight after a well-liked beauty process left her “permanently deformed” and “unrecognizable” … however she’s hiding no extra.

The supermodel is lastly sounding off about her ordeal and, partially, explaining why her profession has stalled all these years whereas her friends have been thriving.

Linda, one of many hottest supermodels within the ’90s who graced Vogue covers, says round 5 years in the past she underwent a fat-reduction process referred to as CoolSculpting — little question, you have seen and heard the advertisements.

But, Linda claims as a substitute of freezing fats cells, the process did the precise reverse.

She claims the process left her “brutally disfigured” and elevated, not decreased her fats cells … and left her “permanently deformed even after undergoing two painful, unsuccessful, corrective surgeries.”

Linda added, “I have been left, as the media has described, ‘unrecognizable.'”

Linda says she then developed Paradoxical Adipose Hyperplasia or PAH … when fats cells develop bigger reasonably than smaller. It’s a uncommon however severe facet impact that largely occurs to males.

Linda says she was NOT made conscious of this danger earlier than present process the process. She says PAH “has not only destroyed my livelihood, it has sent me into a cycle of deep depression, profound sadness, and the lowest depths of self-loathing.”

She’s not solely talking out on social media, Linda filed a federal lawsuit this week in opposition to Zeltiq Aesthetics, the corporate she says created, marketed and distributed the CoolSculpting system. She’s in search of a minimum of $50 million.