Linda Evangelista Claims to Be ‘Permanently Disfigured' After Cosmetic Procedure

Linda Evangelista is addressing wherefore she has not had overmuch of a nationalist beingness successful caller years.

On Wednesday, Sept. 22, the 56-year-old exemplary posted a connection to Instagram alleging she has been "permanently disfigured" aft undergoing a non-surgical fat-freezing process called cryolipolysis. Linda said she utilized Zeltiq Aesthetics's CoolSculpting, which involves acold temperatures to numb the tegument and is typically utilized for assemblage contouring.

In her post, Linda, who roseate to fame arsenic portion of the supermodel country successful the 1990s alongside specified stars arsenic Cindy Crawford and Naomi Campbell, alleged she has been dealing with the wellness issues for implicit 5 years and has undergone 2 surgeries to close the damage, to nary avail.

"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. "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 Linda's post, she has developed paradoxical adipose hyperplasia (PAH), which has been reported arsenic a broadside effect of CoolSculpting and involves abdominous cells increasing arsenic opposed to shrinking, according to Healthline. Is it a cosmetic alternatively than physically unsafe contented but not does spell distant connected its own.

"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."

Linda went connected to accidental she hopes to someday consciousness comfy being successful nationalist again, and that she intends to determination guardant with a lawsuit, though it is unclear whether the suit has yet been filed.

Among those sharing enactment successful the comments conception was Gwyneth Paltrow, who posted a bosom emoji. Additionally, January Jones praised Linda for "reclaiming your story" and added, "An icon is an icon is an icon."

E! News has reached retired to Zeltiq genitor institution Allergan for remark and has not yet heard back.