By Mark Gray
1:54pm PST, Nov 28, 2023
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Linda Evangelista's days as a romantic partner are over: The former supermodel is "not interested" in dating anymore.
During an interview with The Sunday Times that debuted online in late November 2023, the 58-year-old beauty said she doesn't "want to sleep with anybody anymore."
"I don't want to hear somebody breathing," she added.
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Back in 2015 and 2016, Linda Evangelista's face and body were "brutally disfigured" in a botched CoolSculpting procedure. She's since spoken about how her confidence was affected by the change in her appearance.
Her romantic life has also been altered: Her last real relationship ended "definitely before the CoolSculpting" disaster, she said.
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Back in 2022, Linda Evangelista settled a $50 million lawsuit with CoolSculpting, the company she claims botched a fat-removal procure and left her "deformed."
"I'm pleased to have settled the CoolSculpting case," she wrote in a statement. "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."
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After her botched CoolSculpting procedure, Linda Evangelista lived in seclusion for almost five years.
In a February 2022 People magazine cover story, the former supermodel said she was diagnosed with paradoxical adipose hyperplasia after the surgery. (PAH, which causes affected fatty tissue to thicken and expand, is a rare side effect that affects less than 1% of CoolSculpting patients.)
Doctors told her "no amount of dieting and no amount of exercise was ever going to fix it," she said.
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With the lessons learned from her experience, Linda Evangelista now preaches body acceptance.
"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," she said of her body protrusions, which developed after the botched CoolSculpting procedures. "I don't recognize myself physically, but I don't recognize me as a person any longer either."
The image people have of Linda the supermodel is "gone," she said.
"I hope I can shed myself of some of the shame and help other people who are in the same situation as me. That's my goal," she added.
