To find Linda Evangelistas vogue shoot a bit bonkers

[Mountainatmygates]

Obviously most people are vain to a certain degree but she’s had her face pinned back with tape and wires for this new vogue cover shoot because of the damage a cosmetic procedure has done to her body

www.vogue.co.uk/fashion/article/linda-evangelista-british-vogue-interview/amp

I guess none of us want to see ourselves in a negative light either but these pics are a bit bonkers. She’s taped her neck and face up and it’s also been photo shopped and she’s completely covered up!

she’s a beautiful woman regardless of the procedure that went wrong but she’s also 57 and getting older- stuff like this just reinforces false ideas of beauty and ageing. I know the fashion industry is totally fake anyway.

i mean if it makes her feel better then all power to her but it just feels really extra bonkers!

I know the fashion industry is totally fake anyway.

And there you have it.

Famous beauty presented as beautiful without displaying unfortunate effects of a procedure gone wrong. Pics look exactly as expected. The audience is wise to this stuff by now.

@ReneBumsWombats yes true. But we are probably older and wiser to it. It’s still
so unhealthy for young people and stuff like this just perpetuates it doesn’t it! Mad!

I think she is struggling with the ageing process . The Vogue pictures are not reality , that's how she looked in her hey day and bare no relation to how she is today

The article was a really interesting read.

I’m glad to see her back. High Fashion shoots are art/ stories/ make believe. It’s good that she can find a route to doing what she loves after obviously having quite a hideous time.

Aren't models used to being pinned together? It's about creating an image, not taking a photo that looks like you.

It's of a part with the fans, lights, safety pins, boob tape... ordinary day in the life of a model, I'd think.

This made me sad. So much harder to age if you were once gorgeous. Hope she continues to enjoy her son.

“Look, for photos I always think we’re here to create fantasies. We’re creating dreams. I think it’s allowed. Also, all my insecurities are taken care of in these pictures, so I got to do what I love to do.”

She's in a horrendous trap. She acknowledges the photos in fashion magazines are fantasies. Yet the reason she wanted to have the procedure that went wrong was because of how she used to look - ie a fantasy when you're no longer 20 and doubly so when you were the fantasy in those magazines. So now she's not only aging, but disfigured through the fantasy-seeking procedure and to make her feel better she has her face taped up and significant makeup to make her look like the double previous fantasy.

And her friends include the other supermodels who are enjoying a kind off second wave right now.

What an absolute nightmare.

Nobody wants their face to be disfigured in some way, most of us don't even want a zit. But we've not been held up as - and told we are - some kind of international beauty ideal. And even if people told us that, we didn't believe it because we live in the real world!

Part of me feels deeply sorry for her. Another part - smaller, admittedly- thinks she's so close to being able to see the charade that the beauty industry is, that she could potentially make big statements about it and be an incredible role model for younger women.

But her entire identity has revolved around her body, not her mind or her character or helping others. It is quite possibly a step too far to think of feeling anything other than entirely sorry for her, because she's not had any focus on those things to the degree most normal people do, because they're more than their looks (out of necessity, not moral superiority).

I feel a bit sorry for her given the industry she's in but her repeated interviews are so tone-deaf to those who suffer significant disfigurement due to burns, cancer, accidents and illness.
She needs a reality-check.

Gosh - I actually thought they were old photos until I looked a little closer!
I do feel for her, her whole life she’s been valued only for her looks and she’s clearly struggling with the abrupt change she went through after that procedure.

Thanks for sharing OP.

@PlinkPlonkFizz yes quite. People like a Katie piper who have been through so much!

She was my favourite supermodel. She was breathtaking. She is still beautiful but is honest when she says the process of it. She was very unlucky with the complication of her treatment. Most actors and models at that age have some work, not all of them look better for it.
I was a make up artist and would have loved to have done her makeup. That era was so glamorous.

It looks like she was styled by Anne Geddes in some of them 😁

Poor woman, I hope she finds peace.

Just saw the original story on her Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CaDMK_RJx3-/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Lots of praise for how "brave" she's being taking them to court....

You know what would be more brave? Just dealing with the fact of ageing naturally like most other people.

Agreed OP this world is fucking nuts!

Photoshop at it's best.

Quite remarkable what it can do.

All surgeries have an element of risk. It's a privilege to grow old, lots of people die young. I think society has it wrong on cosmetic surgery, and we should accept the ageing process.

I think she should be praised for speaking out. Coolsculpting is very much sold as a easy lunch hour fix with very little focus on consequences that can be deeply unpleasant in less high profile areas and absolutely devastating in visible areas.

Virtually all of us do something to tweak our appearance in some way, whether it’s injectables or surgery, or something a minor as a bit of mascara, some hair straighteners or the treadmill at the gym. This is a good and helpful reminder that even ‘safe’ adjustments carry some risk. So if anyone is criticising this woman due to perceived vanity, I would sincerely hope they’re doing absolutely nothing to improve or adjust how they look for any reason, otherwise they’re ignoring the fact they too have a chance, however minuscule, of an adverse reaction or something going wrong.

Her interviews aren’t tone deaf at all, she’s talking about how she’s been disfigured which she has, nothing to do with anything else. She has lumps protruding out of her body. It’s good she’s highlighting the rare but very unpleasant side affects of cosmetic procedures.

I agree.

Come on @PlinkPlonkFizz. Where does that kind of argument end? How can anyone on here complain about the cost of living rises, choosing between heat and food when there are people that are homeless? How can anyone complain about losing a loved one when some people have lost whole families to war?
Reality is what YOU live. It is a totally legitimate issue in HER life. And OP, Piper has had numerous plastic surgeries to try and fix her burns. Do you think if one of those has caused even more issues that she couldn't complain/sue because she wanted to get back to what she once was?
This isn't a case of 'you haven't suffered enough' to be able to complain. Linda has been frank about how it has affected her mental health and how she is trying to deal with it. That the cause of her problems were self inflicted (albeit not purposely) does not mitigate that they are real. You denying her pain as not comparatively bad enough in your eyes puts anyones suffering on a peculiar scale that is harmful and moralistic.

They've gone too far with the photoshop in this shoot, though - she looks pretty much identical to how she did in the 90s, which only draws attention to the fact that the images must have been artificially enhanced. And somewhere there will be raw files of what she actually looked like, despite the swathes of scarves and weird hat - very tempting for some underpaid runner to leak to a gossip site.

I wish they'd done a more realistic shoot and made her look like a beautiful 50 something woman who is coming to terms with a changing face. Pat McGrath is an amazing make up artist and LE still has fabulous bone structure and those cat's eyes.

I find the whole story fascinating.
To be fair to her, in Feb she did a more natural shoot for People mag - presumably to get her story out about the CoolSculpting disaster. I don't really blame her, as an iconic supermodel brand, for wanting to have a fantasy Vogue shoot to remember - but agree it just highlights how fake it all is.

I completely agree with everything you say @daretodenim and @Ducksinthebath. I feel incredibly sorry for her.

I wonder if she's as bad as she thinks?

I have a friend who says she has "huge" lumps and rolls of fat and when she shows me it, there's fuck all there. Definite body dysmorphia.

The article was interesting, I would never normally read that kind of thing, but when I went to google recent pictures, none were that bad.

I saw pictures and I'll be honest, they would have bothered me...and let's just say I'm no Linda. For a famous supermodel and celebrated beauty whose looks are her livelihood and identity, I can see why it would be devastating.