Linda Evangelista poses for first photoshoot since botched surgery left her 'deformed'

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People magazine for the first time after the disastrous procedure, which left her feeling compelled to hide away from the world.She had taken part in a CoolSculpting procedure to reduce her fat cells, billed as a "non-invasive alternative to liposuction", and which the company claims has been successfully undertaken by over 11 million people worldwide.Unfortunately, Linda suffered a "rare side effect" which caused her fat cells to do the reverse of what the treatment promised to do, and increase instead of decrease.After being told that no amount of exercise would reverse the procedure's effects, she followed up with two further surgeries to try to undo the damage.A post shared by People Magazine (@people)Speaking on Instagram last year, Linda explained: "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."It increased, not decreased, my fat cells and left me permanently deformed even after undergoing two painful, unsuccessful, corrective surgeries.

I have been left, as the media has described, 'unrecognisable'."Linda had started to develop huge bulges of fat in her under-arm area, her thighs, and her face.She was reduced to tears during her brand new interview with People, in which she lamented: "I loved being up on the catwalk.