After a failed cosmetic operation, the former supermodel Linda Evangelista does not receive any more orders. Now she is suing the manufacturer of a device for $ 50 million in damages.
Former supermodel Linda Evangelista was considered one of the most beautiful women in the world in the 90s. Most recently, however, the 56-year-old was hardly seen in public. She made the reason for this public in the middle of the week: a failed cosmetic procedure. It was brutally disfigured by the so-called CoolSculpting. Now she is suing the manufacturer of the device used for 50 million dollars (42.6 million euros) in damages. The 56-year-old filed a lawsuit against the company Zeltiq Aesthetics in federal court in New York. In it, the Canadian justifies the sum demanded with “permanent injury and disfigurement, pain and suffering, severe emotional stress and anguish and economic losses”.
The failed fat reduction five years ago “ruined her career and her body,” said the complaint that the AFP news agency received on Friday. She is no longer able to “earn an income as a model”.
Since the interventions in 2016, the Canadian has reportedly “not earned any income from modeling” – with the exception of a subsequent payment for an earlier advertising campaign for a perfume. In her complaint, the former model icon accuses the company of hiding possible side effects.
Evangelista said on Wednesday in the online service Instagram that she had been “brutally disfigured” by an intervention to reduce fat caused by the cold. The use of so-called “CoolSculpting” backfired and “did the opposite of what it promised”: It increased your fat cells instead of reducing them “and permanently deformed me”. The operation led to a disease called paradoxical obesity hyperplasia.
Even two painful, unsuccessful corrective operations would not have changed that: “As the media have described, I am ‘unrecognizable'”, explained the former supermodel who ran the catwalks with Claudia Schiffer, Cindy Crawford and Naomi Campbell in the 1990s shaped by New York and Paris. She has therefore withdrawn from the limelight in recent years.
The botched operation turned her into a depressed, self-loathed hermit whose livelihood has been destroyed, Evangelista said. “I’m so tired of living like this. I want to walk out the door with my head held high, even though I don’t look like myself anymore.”
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