Almost a year ago, the former top model Linda Evangelista made a failed beauty treatment public. She was “brutally disfigured,” explains the 57-year-old. Now she’s returning to the spotlight – on the cover of British Vogue. But that is only covered.
This step should have required some courage from ex-top model Linda Evangelista. Finally, in September last year, she reported the “deep depression” into which a failed beauty treatment had plunged her. But now she dares to go public again with a cover shoot for the British fashion magazine “Vogue”.
“I miss my job so much, but honestly, what can I do?” the 57-year-old tells the magazine in an accompanying interview. She is convinced that it will be difficult for her to find jobs again. You will certainly not see her in a bathing suit again.
Evangelista’s Vogue footage shows the former supermodel wearing a hat and a scarf that only reveals her face. For the pictures, Evangelista’s face, jaw and neck were slightly pulled back with tape and rubber bands, the inside of the magazine said. “That’s not what my jaw and neck look like in real life – and I can’t go around with tape and rubber bands everywhere,” Evangelista says.
The Canadian was one of the most successful and well-known top models in the world in the 80s and 90s. In September 2021, she shocked with an emotional confession on her Instagram page. She was “brutally disfigured” by a botched beauty treatment, she reported. A cold procedure that was supposed to reduce the fat cells in her body had the opposite effect. As a result, she is now “permanently deformed”.
In the “Vogue” interview, Evangelista also explains why she got involved in the beauty treatment a few years ago. “The commercials for this cold treatment were all over the place,” she recalls. “They said, ‘Do you like what you see in the mirror?’ That appealed to me,” admits Evangelista.
The advertising promise was to fight stubborn fat cells. “It was like no time off, no surgery and… I let myself be seduced because I’m a bit vain,” Evangelista admits.
However, after the treatment went wrong, Evangelista tried to correct the consequences with liposuction, among other things, reports “Vogue”. “I have cuts all over my body. I got stitches, wore compression bandages under my chin, laced up my entire body for eight weeks – nothing helped,” Evangelista said. In desperation, she finally stopped eating, hoping that might help. “So I only drank water. Or maybe I ate a stick of celery or an apple,” she gives an insight into her ordeal. “I lost my mind.”
In the meantime, Evangelista and the company responsible for the unsuccessful treatment have agreed to compensation. But that’s why she didn’t find her peace again, explains Evangelista in the “Vogue” interview. “Am I mentally healed? Definitely not,” she says. She still can’t look in the mirror again and can’t stand it when someone touches her body.
