Linda Evangelista says she was 'brutally disfigured' by cosmetic procedure, will sue company

Linda Evangelista, the Canadian supermodel who shot to fame in the 1990s, wrote on social media that a CoolSculpting cosmetic procedure has left her “brutally disfigured” and a “recluse,” and she has filed a lawsuit with the parent company.

In a post shared to Instagram on Tuesday, the 56-year-old model wrote that she underwent the fat-reduction procedure five years ago and said that it has had adverse effects on her body.

“It increased, not decreased, my fat cells and left me permanently deformed after undergoing two painful, unsuccessful, corrective surgeries,” she wrote. “I have been left, as the media described, ‘unrecognizable.'”

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