Linda Evangelista looked back to her supermodel best as she stepped out in Paris on Wednesday night – after revealing she still needs therapy to look in the mirror after her ‘botched’ plastic surgery.
The beauty, 60, has jetted to the French capital for Fashion Week and was seen exuding glamour in a fur gilet and black leather skirt.
She added a sleek bag and heeled boots to complete her stylish all-black look for the night out.
The star has joined a host of models in France for the biannual Fashion Week, with shows running until next Tuesday.
Linda looked full of confidence after recently admitting she still needs therapy to ‘see what she looks like in the mirror’ after she revealed in 2021 that she had been left ‘permanently deformed’ following rare side effect to a cosmetic procedure.
In an interview with Harper’s Bazaar she shared how she’s changed her approach to her appearance, following a double mastectomy in 2018.
Linda Evangelista looked back to her supermodel best as she stepped out in Paris on Wednesday night
The beauty, 60, has jetted to the French capital for Fashion Week and was seen exuding glamour in a fur gilet and black leather skirt
Linda admitted that she ‘still doesn’t look in the mirror’ after a fat-freezing procedure back in 2016 left her ‘permanently deformed.’
She explained: ‘I have to go through therapy to like what I see when I look in the mirror, and I still don’t look in the mirror. I didn’t want to see myself because I didn’t love myself or like myself.’
Breaking down in tears, she added: ‘I really think beauty is something you earn. I think of my grandmothers’ faces and what the war did to them, the toll it took on them … just wearing their hardships. They wore it, and they were so gorgeous. It had nothing to do with perfection or youth.’
Evangelista previously revealed in 2021 that she decided to retreat from the public eye after she developed a rare reaction to a cosmetic procedure in 2016.
The cryolipolysis procedure, called CoolSculpting, was designed to decrease fat cells, but instead, it made her cells become enlarged. She said she soon began developing ‘bulges’ all over her body, which made her worry that she was losing her mind.
‘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 wrote at the time.
‘It increased, not decreased, my fat cells and left me permanently deformed after undergoing two painful, unsuccessful corrective surgeries. I have been left, as the media described, ‘unrecognizable.”
During the Harper’s Bazaar interview, Linda also revealed that she’s ‘fine’ with her appearance now after she quietly underwent a double mastectomy after being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2018.
Linda looked full of confidence after recently admitting she still needs therapy to ‘see what she looks like in the mirror’
The model suffered from a rare reaction to the procedure known as CoolSculpting, which was designed to decrease her fat cells, but instead, made them become enlarged (pictured left in her nineties modelling heyday and right in 2022 after her ‘botched’ surgery)
She said: ‘My double mastectomy, I’m fine with it. I did put in very small implants. What they took out, I put in, cc-wise.
‘I’ve had all those lung surgeries, oh my God, and my keloids and all the chest-tube scars and my C-section scar. There were a lot of surgeries. I’m cool. I’m fine with those. I won. I’m here. I won.’
She added that in the wake of her ordeal, she’s become more at-peace with the prospect of ageing, saying: ‘I don’t care how I age. I just want to age. It doesn’t have to be gracefully. I really, really, really don’t want to die.
‘I have still so much to do. I’m finally getting comfortable with myself and with everything, and now I want to enjoy it.’
