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Linda Evangelista Says Cryolipolysis "Permanently Disfigured" Her
A catwalk comeback.
After taking clip distant from the spotlight, Linda Evangelista returned to the runway during New York Fashion Week, closing retired the Fendi show.
On Sept. 9, the 57-year-old sashayed her mode down the catwalk wearing an elegant Tiffany's bluish taffeta gown styled with diamond earrings, metallic silk gloves. She besides carried the luxury label's iconic Baguette bag, which celebrated its 25th day this year.
Evangelista strutted her worldly successful beforehand of a star-studded beforehand enactment crowd that included Kim Kardashian and Sarah Jessica Parker—whose Sex and the City quality Carrie Bradshaw famously carried several Baguette bags during the series.
She past walked a runway astatine the Dior Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2008 amusement successful Versailles, France. The caller Fendi amusement besides marks Evangelista's archetypal travel down the catwalk since the supermodel—who roseate to fame arsenic portion of the fashion country successful the 1990s alongside specified stars arsenic Cindy Crawford and Naomi Campbell—shared that she allegedly experienced a botched effect from a non-surgical fat-freezing process called cryolipolysis.
"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," she wrote connected Instagram successful September 2021. "It increased, not decreased, my abdominous cells and near maine permanently deformed adjacent aft undergoing 2 painful, unsuccessful, corrective surgeries. I person been left, arsenic the media has described, 'unrecognizable.'"
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According to the post, Evangelista developed paradoxical adipose hyperplasia (PAH), which has been reported arsenic a broadside effect of CoolSculpting and involves abdominous cells growing as opposed to shrinking, according to Healthline.
"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 continued. "In the process, I person go a recluse."
That month, she filed a lawsuit against Zeltiq Aesthetics Inc. per People. In response, a CoolSculpting rep told the outlet that the process "has been good studied with much than 100 technological publications and much than 11 cardinal treatments performed worldwide" and said the side-effects "continue to beryllium well-documented successful the CoolSculpting accusation for patients and wellness attraction providers."
In July, Evangelista announced connected Instagram that she has settled the lawsuit and was "happy to enactment this substance behind" her,.
That aforesaid month, she teased her instrumentality to modeling, posting a photograph of herself posing successful a Fendi campaign adorned with two metallic sequin Baguette bags, a brace of sunglasses and 3 pinkish satin shot caps successful the shot.
In the post, the exemplary besides promoted the upcoming manner show and expressed that she was "so grateful" for the accidental to correspond the luxury brand.
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