Linda Evangelista, 58, admits she STILL gets Botox – despite a botched CoolSculpting procedure leaving her face ‘brutally disfigured’

Linda Evangelista had admitted she still gets Botox – despite a botched cosmetic procedure leaving her face ‘brutally disfigured’.

The supermodel 58, spent six years ‘in hiding’ after suffering from a rare reaction to the procedure known as CoolSculpting, which was designed to decrease her fat cells, but instead, made them become enlarged. 

Linda joined fellow supermodels Cindy Crawford, 57, Christy Turlington, 54, and Naomi Campbell, 53, for a Vogue shoot that put ageing in the spotlight – but revealed she gets a few tweakments to look youthful. 

‘I don’t mind and I never did mind ageing. Ageing gets us to where we want to be, and that’s for me a long life,’ she told Vogue. 

‘(Legendary make-up artist) Kevyn Aucoin was so afraid of wrinkles and he never got them.

Tweaks: Linda Evangelista had admitted she still gets Botox – despite a botched cosmetic procedure leaving her face ‘brutally disfigured’ 

Icons: Linda joined fellow supermodels Cindy Crawford, 57, Christy Turlington, 54, and Naomi Campbell, 53, for a Vogue shoot that put ageing in the spotlight

‘I want wrinkles – but I Botox my forehead so I am a hypocrite – but I want to grow old.’

The model previously told Vogue she was ‘so depressed’ that she ‘hated’ herself following a CoolSculpting procedure that left her feeling ‘deformed’.

She claimed the faulty procedure caused her to lose her livelihood and left her with things ‘protruding’ from her body.

Linda had two liposuction surgeries in an attempt to fix the problem, and announced back in February she was done living in ‘shame.’

In September 2022, Linda took to her Instagram to announce that she had filed a lawsuit, now settled, in New York against Zeltiq Aesthetics for grievous injuries.

Linda said: ‘If I had known side effects may include losing your livelihood and you’ll end up so depressed that you hate yourself… I wouldn’t have taken that risk.

‘Am I cured mentally? Absolutely not. But I’m so grateful for the support I got from my friends and from my industry… you’re not going to see me in a swimsuit, that’s for sure.

‘It’s going to be difficult to find jobs with things protruding from me; without retouching, or squeezing into things, or taping things or compressing or tricking.’

Honest: ‘I don’t mind and I never did mind ageing. Ageing gets us to where we want to be, and that’s for me a long life. I want wrinkles – but I Botox my forehead so I am a hypocrite, she said

Hard: The model previously told Vogue she was ‘so depressed’ that she ‘hated’ herself following a CoolSculpting procedure that left her feeling ‘deformed’

Supermodel: As one of the world’s most famous supermodels, Linda racked up more than 60 magazine covers during her career (pictured in 1990 for the Azzedine Alaia show)

Linda said she decided to have the CoolSculpting procedure done after watching advertisements on TV, adding: ‘Those CoolSculpting commercials were on all the time, on CNN, on MSNBC, over and over, and they would ask, ‘Do you like what you see in the mirror?’

‘They were speaking to me. It was about stubborn fat in areas that wouldn’t budge. It said no downtime, no surgery and… I drank the magic potion, and I would because I’m a little vain. So I went for it – and it backfired.’

A CoolSculpting representative told People at the time: ‘The procedure has been well studied with more than 100 scientific publications and more than 11 million treatments performed worldwide.’ 

They added that rare side effects such as PAH ‘continue to be well-documented in the CoolSculpting information for patients and health care providers.’