• Ocaso Linda Evangelista's drama, a deformed top 25 years later

She was, along with Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer, Elle Macpherson, Christy Turlington or Naomi Campbell, one of the mythical 'top models' that dazzled the planet in the 90s.

Feline, sophisticated and chameleonic, the Canadian Linda Evangelista was called to be, according to Manolo Blahnik, "

an eternal model

", a prediction that, five years ago, vanished, as Evangelista herself has revealed on her Instagram account, for blame for the lifelong sequelae that an aesthetic treatment has left him.

"Today I am taking a big step to amend

an evil that I have suffered

and kept for myself for more than five years," he began by saying in a post dedicated to his 'followers' in which he explained the reason for his disappearance from public light: "For my fans who have wondered why I haven't been working while my colleagues' careers have prospered, the reason is that I was

brutally disfigured

by Zeltiq's CoolSculpting treatment that did the opposite of what I had promised."

Far from diminishing, the 56-year-old model reveals that, after doing the CoolSculpting, the fat cells of her body increased, leaving her "

permanently deformed

even after undergoing two painful and unsuccessful corrective surgeries. I have remained, as described by the media. communication,

unrecognizable

. "

Turned into "a recluse" in her own home due, according to her account, to the paradoxical adipose hyperplasia (PAH) that caused this cosmetic procedure, she confesses that "she is tired of looking like this" and that she dreams of going back "to leave my house with my head held high, even though I know that

I will never be the way I was again

. "

Medical treatment against localized fat, "the so-called medical cryolipolysis manages

to permanently eliminate adipose tissue by freezing it

at -11º and its subsequent natural evacuation by the body itself, without incisions and in a non-aggressive way", explains Conchita Pinilla, doctor in Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery.

Its results, "especially good in the abdomen, back, arms and double chin", are visible approximately one month after the treatment has been carried out and a couple of sessions are usually required (with a price of about 1,000 euros for each one) ».

Dr. Pinilla explains that "the paradoxical effect of cryolipolysis or, what is called

paradoxical adipose hyperplasia

(PAH) - hardened area of ​​localized fat - is very rare."

What is more common is that, in the case of women who have gone through several pregnancies, "the result obtained in the abdomen is much more subtle, because the skin has lost elasticity and is less toned."

Pinilla assures that the cases of adipose hyperplasia could be solved "with a subsequent liposuction, but it occurs in

very very rare cases

," he repeats.

ONE IN EVERY 4,000 TREATMENTS

The Spanish Society of Aesthetic Medicine (SEME) also underlines the

extraordinary nature

of PAH which, according to Derek Ho and Jared Jagdeo in the research 'A Systematic Review of Paradoxical Adipose Hyperplasia (PAH) Post-Cryolipolysis' -published in 2017- only it occurs in one of every 4,000 treatments or in 0.025% ³ of patients.

Regarding the specific case of the Canadian model, they say from the SEME, "the only thing we know is the information published in the media. We do not have access to the patient's medical history, nor do we know if

the number and times

between each of the cryolipolysis cycles (something very important to avoid stressing the body) ".

They also point to the

growing intrusion

that is registered in the aesthetic medicine sector as the origin of many of the problems that are occurring.

"We know that body treatments like this are being offered to patients in unauthorized Aesthetic Medicine centers, using machines from China that do not comply with the proper protocols."

So far the medical explanation of the strange pathology that has turned one of the beauty goddesses of the late last century into a prey in her own home.

The next question would be: to what extent is the desire to be able to eternalize an irreconcilable ideal of beauty over the years is still tormenting, at this point, many women to the point of preferring to isolate themselves from the world by looking 'wrinkled' or 'fat'?

But this is already another matter ...


POSSIBLE METABOLIC DISORDER

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With all the caution that should be imposed when issuing an opinion on a case, such as that of Linda Evangelista, about which not all the information is available, Conchita Pinilla, doctor in Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery, estimates that her physical change could be due to "a metabolic disorder typical of menopause or a depressive picture" and emphasizes that, in no case, "cryolipolysis can be the cause of a generalized overweight like yours".


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