{"id":20857,"date":"2021-09-23T14:12:33","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T21:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https://www.realself.com\/news\/?p=20857"},"modified":"2024-02-16T09:49:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T17:49:05","slug":"linda-evangelista-coolsculpting-complication-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https://www.realself.com\/news\/linda-evangelista-coolsculpting-complication-lawsuit","title":{"rendered":"Linda Evangelista Says CoolSculpting \u201cDeformed\u201d Her. Doctors Explain What Happened."},"content":{"rendered":"

In a heartbreaking Instagram post<\/a>, supermodel Linda Evangelista, 56, shared with her nearly 1 million followers the reason she has been evading the spotlight for the past five years—why she has become “a recluse,” as she says, “while [her] peers’ careers have been thriving.” <\/p>

“I was brutally disfigured by Zeltiq’s CoolSculpting<\/a> procedure,” she writes, citing a CoolSculpting complication called paradoxical adipose hyperplasia, or PAH, which can occur when the nonsurgical fat-freezing technology inexplicably backfires, causing fatty areas to enlarge rather than shrink. While the precise cause is unclear, some theorize that the device’s cooling effect may spark a stem cell reaction, leading to a proliferation of fat cells, explains Dr. Paul Jarrod Frank<\/a>, a board-certified dermatologic surgeon in New York City. <\/p>

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