Linda Evangelista reveals her face for the first time and says she’s ‘done hiding’ after the procedure

Linda Evangelista previously shared how she was ‘permanently disfigured because of a cosmetic procedure she had six years ago.

Linda Evangelista is shown on screen for the first time after she claims to have been ‘in hiding’ following a frozen plastic surgery.

Her face was permanently disfigured after a cosmetic procedure she had six years ago.

The 56-year-old – who is famous alongside Naomi Campbell and Cindy Crawford – announced in September that she was disfigured after undergoing the CoolSculpting procedure.

And now, the star – who has rarely appeared since 2016 – was seen on Wednesday in New York City.

She did the procedure from August 2015 to February next year.

She was supposed to lose fat cells, but the star suffered from paradoxical fat hyperplasia – a rare side effect that causes her fat cells to increase.

She wears a black zip-up jumper, black sweatpants, cozy black boots and a casual black shirt.

The 90s supermodel tied her hair up and wore clear-rimmed glasses.

It comes after the star claimed she had been “cruelly disfigured” by a cosmetic procedure.

The supermodel is famous alongside the likes of Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford and Christy Turlington but she has mostly gone unnoticed for the past few years.

Linda, who has stayed out of the limelight for the last few years, says she no longer looks like herself after undergoing Zeltiq’s CoolSculpting procedure, which has done ‘the opposite’ of what she had hoped. hope and increase rather than decrease the fat cells leaving her. “permanently deformed”.

In September last year, she took to Instagram to break her silence and explain the two corrective surgeries that tried to repair the damage as ‘painful’ and ‘unsuccessful.’

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“For my followers who have wondered why I’m not working while my colleagues’ careers are thriving, it stands to reason that I’ve been brutally disfigured by the rule of law. Zeltiq’s CoolSculpting program, it did the opposite of what it promised,” she explains.

“It increased, not decreased, my fat cells and left me permanently disfigured despite two painful, unsuccessful revision surgeries. I was left behind, like the media. described, ‘unrecognizable.'”

Linda said she had Paradoxical Fat Hyperplasia (PAH), which is described as an overgrowth of fatty tissue and a rare side effect of the procedure she underwent.

She added: “I developed paradoxical lipodystrophy aka PAH, a risk I was not aware of prior to the procedure.”

Linda also explained how she was “tired” of having to hide herself and wanted to be able to “walk out the door with her head held high”.

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