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Linda Evangelista Admits She 'Still' Doesn't Look in the Mirror After CoolSculpting Trauma

Linda Evangelista says that she is 'still' afraid to look in the mirror after her fat-burning cosmetic procedure went wrong. After her cosmetic procedure, she was diagnosed with Paradoxical adipose hyperplasia, a side effect where fat cells targeted in the treatment grow bigger instead of smaller.

Linda Evangelista is opening up about the mental impacts of the CoolSculpting procedure that left her "disfigured," 10 years later The supermodel was diagnosed with Paradoxical adipose hyperplasia (PAH), "a very rare but serious side effect" where fat cells targeted in the treatment grow bigger instead of becoming smaller"I still don’t look in the mirror. In a Harper's Bazaar cover story published on Thursday, April 24, the supermodel, 59, spoke about the several health struggles she's faced over the past decade, including surgeries like a double mastectomy, the removal of a lump from her chest, keloids and her cosmetic CoolSculpting procedure. In the lawsuit, filed against CoolSculpting's parent company Zeltiq Aesthetics, she alleged that the procedure "increased, not decreased" her fat cells, causing her to be " permanently deformed even after two painful, unsuccessful, corrective surgeries."

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