Botox or bust.
Linda Evangelista appeared on the cover of Vogue’s September issue and admitted she still gets Botox, even after undergoing botched CoolSculpting procedures that left her “brutally disfigured.”
Supermodels Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington and Naomi Campbell reunited for the Vogue shoot, with Linda opening up about aging in the spotlight.
Before Evangelista, 58, spoke out about her CoolSculpting “catastrophe,” she emailed her fashion pals, including her fellow supermodels to let them know what happened. “I couldn’t live with it anymore,” Linda told Vogue, adding, “I wanted to go outside.”
Evangelista explained her contradictory approach to growing older. “I don’t mind and I never did mind aging,” the fashion icon told the mag. “Aging gets us to where we want to be, and that’s for me a long life.”
“[Legendary makeup artist] Kevyn Aucoin was so afraid of wrinkles and he never got them. I want wrinkles— but I Botox my forehead so I am a hypocrite —but I want to grow old,” Evangelista revealed.
Now, the mom of one has made her triumphant return to the runway, is back on Vogue covers and confidently shares photos of her face and body after spending five years in hiding.
The ‘90s supermodel underwent seven sessions of CoolSculpting, (a noninvasive procedure that is supposed to freeze fat cells), to her jawline, back, stomach and thighs from 2015 to 2016.
Evangelista since ended her long saga and settled the lawsuit against CoolSculpting’s parent company Zeltiq Aesthetics Inc. for $50 million in July 2022.
“I look forward to the next chapter of my life with friends and family, and am happy to put this matter behind me. I am truly grateful for the support I have received from those who have reached out,” Linda wrote in a statement about the settlement.
Fans were loving the reunion — which comes ahead of the quartet’s forthcoming Apple TV+ documentary — but were critical of the mag’s editing.
“Great cover, maybe ease up on all the photoshopping tho eh; they are all stunning without it,” one person commented on Vogue’s Instagram post.
“Iconic ✨but when will we let women age,” said another with a third questioning, “It looks so fake and almost robotic. Where is life? Where is the dream?”
