“I Can’t Live Like This Anymore”- Supermodel Linda Evangelista Explained About Her Coolsculpting Surgery- What Happened To Linda Evangelista?? Linda Evangelista Body After Operation, Fat Freezing Nightmare. Popular Canadian Model Linda Evangelista has been living in seclusion for five years after she was disfigured by non-surgical cosmetic treatment. Recently, she shared her present condition which is “unrecognizable” and spoke against CoolSculpting’s parent company.
A Famous fashion model who shared an Instagram post about her surgery in September 2021, opened up her entire struggle with the popular cosmetic treatment, CoolSculpting which is a fat-freezing procedure that is a non-invasive alternative to liposuction. Here is what happened to one of the top supermodels from the 1990s.
What Changed Linda Evangelista’s Life?
Linda Evangelista,56, recently spoke with People for the cover story of its upcoming issue about the treatment that results in developing lumps on her body.
She says, “I loved being up on the catwalk. Now I dread running into someone I know. I can’t live like this anymore, in hiding and shame. I just couldn’t live in this pain any longer. I’m willing to finally speak.”
Evangelista explains that she had seven sessions of CoolSculpting surgery from August 2015 to February 2016. Just after three months of the surgery, she has noticed a few bulges under her chin, thighs, and upper back.
She said that the surgery was done to shrink these same areas. But the results were more hardened bulges that later turned into numbs.
She further explained, although she tried several diets and exercise to fix herself, nothing worked. When she consulted a doctor, it was revealed that she was diagnosed with Paradoxical Adipose Hyperplasia (PAH), a rare side effect of the CoolSculpting surgery.
A healthy diet or regular exercise will not help her to escape from this condition.
PAH is caused by the freezing process which promotes the expansion and thickening of the fat tissues.
Linda Evangelista V/S Zeltiq Aesthetic Inc
A rep from the Zeltiq Aesthetic Inc, the parent company of CoolSculpting said, CoolSculpting is an FDA-approved fat-freezing treatment that has been studied with more than 100 publications and over 11 million treatments have been done to date. He explained that the information about side effects including PAH was given to every patient.
However, Linda claimed that she was not informed about the possible side effects before the treatment. She added that she is going to file a lawsuit against Zeltiq’s CoolSculpting.
She wrote in her Instagram, “I was brutally disfigured by Zeltiq’s CoolSculpting procedure which did the opposite of what it promised. It increased, not decreased, my fat cells and left me permanently e d formed even after undergoing two painful, unsuccessful, corrective surgeries. I have developed Paradoxical Adipose Hyperplasia or PHA, a risk of which I was not made aware before I had the procedures”.
