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Linda Evangelista reveals why she has been missing: suffers a deep depression after cosmetic treatment

2021-09-23T23:24:25.635Z


The famous model of the nineties assures that she has developed a disease due to liposculpture and that she can no longer earn a living as a mannequin, which is why she has lived the last five years "like a hermit"


Linda Evangelista hasn't walked a red carpet in seven years. Her last posing portraits date from a perfume party in New York in June 2015. The paparazzi have hunted her on only one subsequent occasion: in September 2017, also in New York. There is no more: no galas or parties, not even weddings or funerals. And it is striking, because the 56-year-old model was in the nineties one of the greatest exponents, along with Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington or Elle McPherson, of the concept of

top model,

and all those women of her generation continue to work today and with a great media exposure. Evangelista paraded for the greatest, posed for top photographers and starred on the covers of hundreds of fashion magazines. But a few years ago it disappeared.

Up to now. The Canadian has openly told in a long text on her Instagram profile, where she has more than 900,000 followers, that it has been a problem with an aesthetic treatment that has separated her from public life, by, according to her, "leaving it completely deformed" and, also according to their version, disabled to continue exercising their profession. "Today I am taking a big step correcting a damage that I have suffered and that I have been keeping to myself for five years," Evangelista begins in her letter. “To all my fans, who have wondered why I have not worked while my colleagues' careers have been on the rise, the reason is that I was brutally disfigured by Zeltiq's CoolSculpting procedure, which did the opposite of what was promised. Increased, not decreased, my fat cells and permanently deformed me,even after going through two very painful corrective surgeries without success. They have left me, as the press has described, "unrecognizable", says the model, referring to a treatment used frequently in many beauty centers and that is designed to extract fat, in a similar way to liposuction, but without surgery. invasive.

The device makes use of cryolipolysis, that is, it uses sub-zero temperatures and applies it to fat cells to eliminate them, both in the body and in areas of the face such as the neck. You have to do several sessions and their effects are usually seen in a couple of weeks, according to Dr. Paula Rosso, a specialist in Aesthetic Medicine at the Lajo Plaza medical center in Madrid. “It is an expensive treatment, the price of the session can exceed a thousand euros and several are needed. The price of one of these machines can exceed 100,000 euros ”.

The mannequin claims that this procedure has made her sick. "I have developed paradoxical adipose hyperplasia, or PAH [for its acronym in English], a risk that I was not warned about before undergoing the procedure," he says. This ailment can develop after cryolipolysis. In fact, in 2018 the official magazine of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons warned that this could be a "rare" complication after treatment, and that in that case there would be "a painless mass, more enlarged, firm and well defined." Although the manufacturer estimated that this hyperplasia would only occur in 1 in 4,000 treatments, according to US surgeons it would occur in 0.72% of cases, in approximately 1 in 138 sessions.Although it was claimed at the time that the disease could be treated with liposuction or perhaps a tummy tuck months after treatment, it seems that Evangelista has not worked.

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"The PAH has not only destroyed my way of making a living, but it has made me fall into a wheel of deep depression, deep sadness and the lowest depths of self-loathing," Evangelista has now assured.

“In the process, I have become a hermit.

With this demand, I step forward to free myself from shame, and to go public with my story.

I am very tired of living this way.

I would love to walk out the door with my head held high, even though I no longer look like myself. "

Dr. Mar Mira, co-director of the Mira + Cueto clinic in Madrid, explains that this technique “requires an individual response from the patient”, and that “not everyone has the same results, nor the same in the same area”, and points out also that "the application technique is very important, as well as the mapping of the areas to be treated", and that therefore all this "influences a good or bad result". "All this is a cocktail of variables that if not well controlled can lead to a bad result," he says.

For Dr. Rosso, this is a device that - although she does not use, among other things because of its high price and "because such a fantastic result is not achieved" - "provides a lot of peace of mind because it has FDA approval," the drug agency “The case of Evangelista would be one of the exceptions, of the rare cases. Instead of treating it with the same technology, it is solved with liposuction, but you probably have not had a good solution in it. You have to see how they have treated her again, the times are not detailed, but for that surgery you have to wait at least four or six months ”. The doctor acknowledges that the information about the aesthetic problem of the model has moved from the first hour in various groups of doctors in the sector,and he believes that it will affect the powerful Allergan laboratory (which bought the aesthetics branch of Zeltiq), its manufacturer, in a very negative way, both in its sales and in its public image. In fact, he does not rule out a trial or an out-of-court settlement that favors Evangelista. "After the surgery he has had a deformity and it is permanent, he can sue and win quietly," he says. In addition, he affirms that this treatment is usually carried out especially in women between 30 and 50 years who seek to remove some localized fat, and that this is usually a sector that comes to the well-informed consultation, so this case can throw them back to when paying a high amount for such therapy. This newspaper has contacted Allergan, but has not received a response at the moment.both in its sales and in its public image. In fact, he does not rule out a trial or an out-of-court settlement that favors Evangelista. "After the surgery he has had a deformity and it is permanent, he can sue and win quietly," he says. In addition, he affirms that this treatment is usually carried out especially in women between 30 and 50 years who seek to remove some localized fat, and that this is usually a sector that comes to the well-informed consultation, so this case can throw them back to when paying a high amount for such therapy. This newspaper has contacted Allergan, but has not received a response at the moment.both in its sales and in its public image. In fact, he does not rule out a trial or an out-of-court settlement that favors Evangelista. "After the surgery he has had a deformity and it is permanent, he can sue and win quietly," he says. In addition, he affirms that this treatment is usually carried out especially in women between 30 and 50 years who seek to remove some localized fat, and that this is usually a sector that comes to the well-informed consultation, so this case can throw them back to when paying a high amount for such therapy. This newspaper has contacted Allergan, but has not received a response at the moment.you can sue and win quietly, "he says. In addition, he affirms that this treatment is usually carried out especially in women between 30 and 50 years who seek to remove some localized fat, and that this is usually a sector that comes to the well-informed consultation, so this case can throw them back to when paying a high amount for such therapy. This newspaper has contacted Allergan, but has not received a response at the moment.you can sue and win quietly, "he says. In addition, he affirms that this treatment is usually carried out especially in women between 30 and 50 years who seek to remove some localized fat, and that this is usually a sector that comes to the well-informed consultation, so this case can throw them back to when paying a high amount for such therapy. This newspaper has contacted Allergan, but has not received a response at the moment.but has not received a response at the moment.but has not received a response at the moment.

The panorama of the fashion industry today would be unrecognizable for that scenario of the 1990s in which Linda Evangelista triumphed. Social advances have made it possible to find many professionals of advanced ages, non-binary gender or different sizes. This is the case of greats in the sector such as Paloma Elsesser or Precious Lee, models proud of their weight and with a relevant presence and a solid reputation in the industry. In this sense, in the last full season in which the models paraded without restrictions due to the pandemic (autumn-winter 2020/21) 16 mannequins were labeled as 'large sizes' and paraded for 19 firms, according to the platform of Tag-Walk data analysis.Women who were previously practically banned from the images of luxury fashion brands are now part of this universe and nothing prevents them from working for it.

In 2017, the luxury giants LVMH and Kering signed an agreement to alleviate the industry's endemic problem regarding draconian impositions of weight between models.

Among other things, this agreement stated that all the firms belonging to these two holding companies committed “

to work only with models that are capable of presenting valid medical certificates

, provided by the agencies and obtained in less than six months before the photo session. of the parade ”, and also that they would ban“ size 32 for women and 42 for men ”.

Models with completely normative (and thin) bodies like Karlie Kloss or Cara Delevingne or Gigi Hadid heard only a decade ago that they were too fat to participate in certain shows.

The allegation of the model on her Instagram account on Thursday night has made her win the affection of friends and acquaintances, and of many colleagues by profession. Her friend and colleague Christy Turlington used to tell her, "We love you so much." Carolyn Murphy stated: “You are a huge icon, an eternal beauty from the inside out. We are all here to support you and love you ”. "Sweet Linda," wrote Karen Elson, "I love you, you are brave and wonderful." Naomi Campbell encouraged her: “I applaud you for your bravery and your strength. For sharing your experience and not remaining a hostage. You know I love you. We love you, and we are here for you, always by your side. I can't imagine the mental pain you've had to go through these five years. You are already free. Remember who you are and what you have accomplished and your influence in the lives of everyone you have touched,something you keep doing by sharing your story. I am proud of you and I support you in every step you take ”.

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In these years, Evangelista has been missing from the world of fashion and even from the social chronicle;

His latest information dates from 2012, when he managed to get businessman François Henri Pinault, Salma Hayek's husband, to pay him a pension for the maintenance of the child they have in common.

But in recent years there have been no images or information;

It was only news for not being news, because it did not appear in Donatella Versace's tribute to the great tops (with Carla Bruni, Claudia Shiffer, Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford and Helena Christensen) in September 2017. In fact, not even she She uploads her own photos to her social networks.

His latest portraits, which are rare, date from the summer of 2019.

Source: elparis

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