To find Linda Evangelistas vogue shoot a bit bonkers

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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’m probably in the minority but I miss the days of models being super human looking works of art. Christy, Naomi, Linda, Cindy, Helena, Veronica, Salome, Kristen, Iman…I loved them all. I want my models to be beautiful. I don’t want to look at normal people in a fashion magazine or a billboard!

I feel sorry for what she's gone through. It would be horrible for anyone and if your whole life has been focused on being a fabled beauty in the public eye, it is even worse.

I think the Vogue shoot is a bit ridiculous though, it is staged and manipulated to the point where I actually thought they were using pictures of her from 30 years ago (with the addition of strange hats) It does highlight the utter fakery of it all.

I imagine it’s the time frame. You go into a cosmetic procedure as a celebrated beauty and within a few weeks you look at yourself and in your own eyes you are actually disfigured (I think she looks perfectly normal for her age tbh) It’s not over years it’s over days and weeks. It’s probably traumatising.

Most of us have time to get accustomed to the sagging and things moving around (bar the odd time you catch a look of yourself in the mirror and go “holy fuck I’m old).

I feel for her, it’s how she earned her money, it was probably an integral part of her identity.

The shoot was probably her mates trying to give her back a tiny bit of her old self back.

i agree that it’s unfortunate that people feel the need to do this. Kate Moss seems to be happy ageing normally.

I just find it odd that the last time she was in the news it was moaning about being "disfigured" and living as a recluse and a year later appears on the cover of Vogue. The phrase disfigured is pretty strong, carrying connotations of acid attack/fire victims or those who have lost limbs from accidents or illness. From what anyone can see, "botched operation" seems more the case. If she really wanted to be inspirational then the shoot could have skipped the taping and smoothed over some of the damage with Photoshop but the whole campaign just seems pretty tone deaf in the current environment.

She’s disfigured by any measure. Have you seen the photos of her as she really is? The damage is awful and the cause is irrelevant.

I think she’s very brave to do it and if it’s helped her mental health I’m delighted for her. I don’t understand what you mean by “tone deaf in the current environment”, can you help me out?

Disfigured means the appearance is spoiled. She has been disfigured. She doesn’t have soft lumps of fat, she has hard lumps protruding from her body. Maybe we should just scrap models and magazines in the ‘current environment’ whatever that means.

I found the shoot and interview heartbreaking and sad, rather than weird.

It helps highlight the dangers of cosmetic treatments. Unfortunately I think we will see more of these when the heavily injected 29 somethings start suffering the longer damaging effects of the treatments.

Until society starts valuing women for something other than the way they look, her story won’t be a one-off.

I feel like she was in the ideal position to deconstruct the fashion industry ideal of beauty. First pics, full noise of taping, scarves, photoshop etc. Next pics, no hats and scarves, tape revealed. Next pics, no tape, just makeup. Last pic, minimal makeup and no Photoshop, Linda E as she really is, which lets face it, is still way more conventionally beautiful than most women of her age.

I normally eyeroll at 'beautiful people suffer too!' but it must be hard if you have been adored for your looks your whole life to see them fade.

Helena Christiansen is another absolutely stunning woman but she badly facetunes her instagram posts alot of the time.

She is a victim of her own vanity.

I totally agree.

I don’t think she’s had nothing done.

Me too. I don't think we're in the minority I think it's human nature to want to look at beautiful people. Unfortunately theres a very vocal minority crying about how unfair it is that models aren't as overweight and ordinary as the rest of us.

Yes, it's crazy. She is very neurotic. She has placed all her value in her beauty, which, yes I know the world does too, but it does show her to lack depth and integrity. Plenty of other exceptionally beautiful women who have completely lost their looks lead full and productive lives. Bridget Bardot for example.

She annoys the shit out of me. Vain idiot undertakes unnecessary procedure because of vanity and fear of ageing. She's acting like she overcame something life-threatening.

Brigitte Bardot lost her looks through choice and self neglect, there’s a huge difference. It’s not just her looks Evangelista has lost, it’s her living and her health. I think that might make most of us a bit “neurotic”.

I really think it’s not the best thing she could have done. She has been photographed elsewhere, relatively recently, looking unrecognisable and much older than her years. She knows she should have avoided tampering with her face and yet she did. She has bleated on about the tragedy of the effect she has suffered.

She would have garnered more respect had she made it her mission to campaign against such ludicrous attempts to hold back time.

@ReneBumsWombats thanks for relying. Could you post a link of her worst picture for me please. I genuinely googled and couldn't find a picture where she looked that bad.

Agree with you.

I feel a bit sorry for her, there is definitely a lesson to be learned from her sad tale.

I remember watching the series of programmes they about certain years on the BBC, focusing on the films, music, general pop culture. “I Love 1990” had a segment on supermodels and one of the commentators said that “The Supers” were beautiful in the same way a piece of Chippendale furniture is considered beautiful - totally unobtainable for the vast majority!

It's got to be more difficult to deal with ageing when you've been valued and praised for your looks, and that's how you make your living.

Sounds like she's had a really rough time. I wouldn't go for CoolSculpting or similar, but I can understand why she would and it sounds like it's caused real, permanent issues for her. Very sad. I hope she's on the road to recovery with her mental health.

As a human I'd feel sorry for anyone this happened to.

But I question the whole premise that it's worse because it happened to her. An ex super model. And there's absolutely no questioning or discussion in the article as to why a person would want to start doing stuff like that anyway.

Someone who has been acknowledged as very beautiful. Why does she have to reman as a 25 year old in looks? Why couldn't she be very beautiful and heavier?

Why pretend in these shoots she looks 25 ?
That's what I find distasteful and reductive. That's down to Vogue tbh.