SupermodelLinda Evangelistawas one of the world’s top supermodels in the 1990s.
Her face was everywhere on the runway, in ad campaigns, and on the cover of magazines.
Evangelista first shared that she was suing in an Instagram post shared on September 22, 2021.
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“I loved being up on the catwalk,” Evangelista, 56, toldPeople.
“Now I dread running into someone I know.
A throwback photo from Thierry Mugler’s Fall 1995 that Evangelista recently shared to her Instagram.
I can’t live like this anymore, in hiding and shame.
I just couldn’t live in this pain any longer.
I’m willing to finally speak.”
“I tried to fix it myself, thinking I was doing something wrong,” she said.
“I got to where I wasn’t eating at all.
I thought I was losing my mind.”
She is sort of gone."
Evangelista got liposuction to reduce the PAH, but it started coming back anyway.
“It wasn’t even a little bit better,” she told the magazine.
“The bulges are protrusions.
And they’re hard.
Because it’s not like soft fat rubbing; it’s like hard fat rubbing.
I don’t look in the mirror.
It doesn’t look like me.”
Evangelista hopes that sharing her experience andtraumawill provide comfort to those who have experienced the same.
“Why do we feel the need to do these things [to our bodies]?”
“I always knew I would age.
And I know that there are things a body goes through.
But I just didn’t think I would look like this.
I don’t recognize myself physically, but I don’t recognize me as a person any longer either.
She is sort of gone.”
This story originally appeared onglamour.com.
