Five months after Linda Evangelista revealed on Instagram that she had been “permanently deformed” from a CoolSculpting procedure, the former supermodel is sharing more of her story, telling People magazine that she is done hiding.

“I loved being up on the catwalk. Now I dread running into someone I know,” the 56-year-old told the publication. “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.”

While Evangelista had notably taken years away from the spotlight, it wasn’t until Sept. 2021 that she went public with her reasoning for doing so. She shared her story on Instagram with the hashtag #TheTruth where she wrote that she had been “brutally disfigured by Zeltiq’s CoolSculpting procedure which did the opposite of what it promised.” Now, she’s revealing the details of what happened.

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Evangelista told People that she had undergone seven sessions of CoolSculpting between August 2015 and Feb. 2016 and noticed within months that the procedure meant to get rid of fat was instead expanding and hardening those areas instead.

“I tried to fix it myself, thinking I was doing something wrong,” she said, pointing to dieting and overexercising. “I got to where I wasn’t eating at all. I thought I was losing my mind”.

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