Linda Evangelista has made the heartbreaking confession that she doesn’t look in the mirror anymore.
The 58-year-old supermodel - who revealed earlier this year she was fighting cancer for the second time - was left “permanently disfigured” in 2016 when she underwent a fat-freezing procedure with CoolSculpting. She later sued the company for $50 million, but although she no longer “blames herself”, she nonetheless chooses not to look at her reflection.
She told the Sunday Times: “Oh, I don’t look in the mirror. My son will say to me sometimes, ‘You might want to know that you have a pimple on your chin’. And I’m like, what? But life is better without mirrors. Well, I don’t blame myself anymore. I’m not hard on myself any longer. And how people feel about me still bothers me a little bit, but it used to bother me a lot.
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“I know now that I didn’t do anything wrong. For the longest time, I thought I did. I’m not completely rid of it, but I work hard at getting rid of the guilt and the shame. And I’m not letting it ruin my life. I wouldn’t have stayed locked up if I’d known how many people cared.”