Last 12 months, supermodel Linda Evangelista had recounted how a CoolSculpting process had left her “disfigured”, Now, she has determined to share the primary pictures of her physique, after residing a secluded life for fairly a while.
Along with the images shared completely with People, the 56-year-old additionally opened up about her traumatic expertise for the journal’s cowl story this week. “I loved being up on the catwalk. Now I dread running into someone I know. 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,” she was quoted as saying.
For the uninitiated, CoolSculpting is a well-liked FDA-cleared “fat-freezing” process.
Previously, in a publish captioned “#TheTruth #MyStory”, Evangelista wrote: “To my followers who have wondered why I have not been working while my peers’ careers have been thriving, the reason is that I was brutally disfigured by Zeltiq’s CoolSculpting procedure which did the opposite of what it promised.”
She alleged that Zeltiq “increased, not decreased” her “fat cells” and left her “permanently deformed”, even after “undergoing two painful, unsuccessful, corrective surgeries”. “I have been left, as the media has described, unrecognizable”.
Speaking with People in regards to the botched process, Evangelista stated, “I tried to fix it myself, thinking I was doing something wrong. I got to where I wasn’t eating at all. I thought I was losing my mind.” She informed the outlet that inside three months of the therapy, she began to note “bulges” across the chin, thighs and bra space, the identical locations she wished to shrink.
In June 2016, when she went to her physician, she “dropped [her] gown”. “I was bawling, and I said, ‘I haven’t eaten, I’m starving. What am I doing wrong?'” She was identified with paradoxical adipose hyperplasia (PAH). “I used to be like, ‘What the hell is that?’ And he informed me no quantity of weight-reduction plan, and no quantity of train was ever going to repair it.”
The mannequin additionally stated that so as to “correct the PAH damage”, she underwent a full-body liposuction surgical procedure in 2016, following which, she needed to “wear compression garments, girdles and a chin strap for eight weeks”. Otherwise, “the PAH may come back” and it did in her case, even after a second liposuction surgical procedure in July 2017.
“The bulges are protrusions. And they’re hard. If I walk without a girdle in a dress, I will have chafing to the point of almost bleeding. Because it’s not like soft fat rubbing, it’s like hard fat rubbing,” she was quoted as saying. Even her posture has been affected, as she can not “put [her] arms flat along my side. I don’t think designers are going to want to dress me with that.”
Dr Sachin Dhawan, senior advisor, Department of Dermatology, Fortis Memorial Research Institute, Gurugram informed indianexpress.com that PAH is “unexpected thickening of the fat layer after doing a cryo-lipolysis treatment, which is meant to reduce it”.
“It happens due to the fat cells producing more fat due to the sub-optimal cold injury. With optimal cold injury, the fat cells die and that leads to inch loss. It’s a rare phenomenon, and happens in less than 1 per cent of the cryo-lipolysis treatments,” he stated.
The physician added that it largely occurs inside 1-2 months after the process.
“It’s less likely to happen with FDA-approved good quality cooling machines that deliver uniform cooling to the fat cells. In case it happens, we have to use pressure garments and massage is needed, or sometimes other methods of fat loss like liposuction and injection lipolysis have to be used to correct this,” stated Dr Dhawan.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
