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Supermodel Evangelista in 2005: "It won't be easy"
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For years she was considered one of the most successful models of all time, but recently it became quiet around Linda Evangelista.
The 57-year-old suddenly shied away from the public, and Evangelista also stopped her work.
In September, she clarified the reasons on Instagram and shared that she had been "brutally disfigured" by an unsuccessful cosmetic procedure.
She was "afraid of meeting someone I know," Evangelista said of her changed appearance at the time.
She sued the manufacturer of the device used in the treatment for $50 million in damages.
The dispute has now been settled.
In the meantime, Evangelista can apparently live better with the consequences of the procedure – and even appears again on the cover of the British fashion magazine »Vogue«.
She told the magazine again how much she regrets the treatment.
"If I had known that side effects include losing your existence and becoming so depressed you hate yourself, I would never have taken the risk," Evangelista said.
"I did it - and it took revenge"
However, the manufacturer's advertising, for example on television, convinced her at the time.
"I did it - and it took revenge," said the 57-year-old.
The treatment should have actually reduced fat cells.
But instead they got bigger.
According to the model, within a few months of the treatment, areas of her face and body started to get bigger and harder.
The intervention apparently also led to Evangelista not receiving or being able to accept any more orders for a long time.
»I miss my job so much, but honestly, what can I do?
It's not going to be easy,” Evangelista said.
She also announced that she would no longer wear a bathing suit.
The pictures, which the magazine published online, show her wearing a hat and a scarf that only leaves her face exposed.
The article states that for the cover images, Evangelista's face, jaw and neck were slightly pulled back with tape and rubber bands.
"My jaw and neck don't look like that in real life - and I can't walk around everywhere with tape and rubber bands," quotes the model as saying.
Evangelista isn't the first celebrity to be self-critical about cosmetic surgery.
Actress Jane Fonda recently revealed that she was not proud of the surgery she had undergone.
"I had a facelift and I stopped because I didn't want to look distorted," Fonda said.
