Former supermodel Linda Evangelista has filed a lawsuit in opposition to a beauty surgical procedure firm as a result of she says they left her “brutally disfigured.”
“To my followers who’ve questioned why I’ve not been working whereas my friends’ careers have been thriving, the reason being that I used to be brutally disfigured by Zeltiq’s CoolSculpting process which did the alternative of what it promised,” she posted on social media.
The mannequin claimed that she suffered a uncommon facet impact known as paradoxical adipose hyperplasia (PAH) after the procedures.
“PAH has not solely destroyed my livelihood, it has despatched me right into a cycle of deep despair, profound unhappiness, and the bottom depths of self-loathing. Within the course of, I’ve change into a recluse,” she stated.
Evangelista says she had a number of procedures between 2015 and 2016 to scale back fats on her thighs, stomach, again, flanks and chin.
She is in search of $50 million in damages for misplaced earnings and emotional misery and says she is now unemployable as a mannequin.