Linda Evangelista is being open and honest about her approach to ageing.
“I Botox my forehead so I am a hypocrite — but I want to grow old,” she shared in Vogue‘s September issue.
In a recent interview with Vogue, the supermodel shared that she “never did mind aging” because getting older “gets us to where we want to be, and that’s for me a long life”.
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These comments come six years after Evangelista was “brutally disfigured” by a CoolSculpting accident – a procedure promoted as a noninvasive alternative to liposuction.
“It increased, not decreased, my fat cells and left me permanently deformed even after undergoing two painful, unsuccessful, corrective surgeries,” she revealed in 2021.
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She was later diagnosed by a doctor with Paradoxical adipose hyperplasia (PAH) – a risk she alleges she was not warned about before having the procedure. After the accident, she chose to live in seclusion for years.
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In 2021, Evangelista filed a $US50 million (approx. $76 million) case against CoolSculpting’s parent company, Zeltiq Aesthetics Inc.
“I loved being up on the catwalk. Now I dread running into someone I know,” she told PEOPLE in 2022. “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.”
The star made her comeback last year, though she vowed no one would ever see her in a bikini again.
”If I had known side effects may include losing your livelihood and you’ll end up so depressed that you hate yourself, I wouldn’t have taken that risk,” she told Vogue last year.
“It was about stubborn fat in areas that wouldn’t budge,” she explained. “It said no downtime, no surgery. I drank the magic potion, and I would because I’m a little vain. So I went for it – and it backfired.”