Linda Evangelista Says Body Sculpting Procedure Left Her ‘Disfigured’

U.S.|Supermodel Linda Evangelista Says Cosmetic Procedure Left Her ‘Disfigured’

Linda Evangelista, the supermodel made celebrated successful the 1990s, said she had go “brutally disfigured” and “unrecognizable” aft a cosmetic body-sculpting process that had turned her into a recluse.

“Today I took a large measurement towards righting a incorrect that I person suffered and person kept to myself for implicit 5 years,” she wrote successful an Instagram station connected Wednesday.

“To my followers who person wondered wherefore I person not been moving portion my peers’ careers person been thriving, the crushed is that I was brutally disfigured by Zeltiq’s CoolSculpting process which did the other of what it promised.”

Ms. Evangelista, 56, said aft the fat-freezing process she developed paradoxical adipose hyperplasia, a broadside effect successful which patients make steadfast insubstantial masses successful the attraction areas.

She said the cosmetic process near her “permanently deformed adjacent aft undergoing 2 painful, unsuccessful, corrective surgeries.” She said she had not been told of the risk.

“PAH has not lone destroyed my livelihood, it has sent maine into a rhythm of heavy depression, profound sadness, and the lowest depths of self-loathing,” she wrote. “In the process, I person go a recluse.”

Although Ms. Evangelista’s Instagram station mentioned a lawsuit, it was unclear whether 1 had been filed oregon where.

According to CoolSculpting, the process has been cleared by the Food and Drug Administration for the attraction of disposable abdominous bulges.

According to the website of Allergan Aesthetics, a planetary pharmaceutical institution whose brands see CoolSculpting, the process whitethorn origin an enlargement successful the treated country astir 2 to 5 months aft treatment, requiring surgical involution for correction.