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!

She’s never going to come to terms with the way her face looks now I don’t think. From what she said in the interview she enjoyed seeing her old face back momentarily even if it was achieved with lots of “scaffolding” and copious amounts of skilfully applied make up.

She's got painful lumps on her body that can't be removed by liposuction. She had treatments for stubborn fat on her body and jaw.

We’ll if It helps her being photographed likes that then it is what it is.

I don't know what they did but she looks fantastic.

Most would assume that she's been photoshopped and not real

l find it difficult to have much empathy, she made a very good living off the way she looked, and that photo of her apparently looking deformed looks nothing of the sort, her unflattering glasses and hair scraped back doesn' t help. You look at natural photos of any of these mature models without make up and in casuals they look ordinary. She has a victim mentality yet lives a very priverledged lifestyle thanks to her genetics.
I would respect her more for helping people who are really inflicted by disfigurements.

I'm confused. Those pictures aren't current / recent are they? How is that possible when she was photographed recently with the damage done by the company she sued? She looks 21 again. Is this a joke?

It is bonkers and sad. I can see the lumps she’s been left with are a real issue. But overall she looks fine, she just dresses like a depressed librarian - I know she is depressed and that’s a serious thing, but if she dressed and made herself up she would look good. I don’t think it’s just the procedure, I think she is also just having a real tough time w ageing.

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No, it’s taping, lighting and photoshop. They are fakes really, but the photoshoot did happen.

She had a lot of work done fairly recently. Her eyes are unrecognisable.

I found a 2014 photo of her, before she had the botched surgery. She didn’t look very different from the way she does now, then she just looked liked an older woman who had gained a lot of weight since her modelling days.

Absolutely. I think what happened is she aged and put on a load of weight, then tried various quick fixes including CoolSculpting. This nasty side effect happened, yes, but now she is blaming the entirety of her ageing and weight gain on it. When in fact the change in her looks is 95% ageing and weight gain and 5% CoolSculpting.

Having said that, if her story means people think more carefully about these “lunch hour tweakments” and make sure they are told the risks, then I’m all for it.

No need to assume, she looks like she's beaming in from the moon. I've got clingfilm with more texture.

Bur Photoshop is standard. I'm not saying that's a good thing, I'm just saying it's a well-known thing and people are pretty wise to it now. I don't think anyone seeing those pictures will think they haven't been edited.

My goodness, she comes across as horribly vain and vacuous. She could have used her celebrity to comment on how fake the beauty industry is, and how it essentially makes money from making women feel crap, but no. Getting so, so sick of this chasing youth claptrap, ffs can we just get old naturally without being guilt tripped into trying to look younger.

She could have used her celebrity to comment on how fake the beauty industry is

They all could, but would they work again after that?

Besides, people would accuse her of saying it only because she's lost her beauty and that she'd be fine with it still if the procedure had worked.

I think her biggest problem is accepting that she is no longer in her 20s and that her career isn't going to have the same momentum or that she's going to look the same way at 57.

It's a shame that she hasn't used her platform to speak out about the dangers of cosmetic procedures and how they can go wrong.

It's sad that these women don't feel confident enough to embrace and own the way that they look.

I think for example, Nicole Kidman, for all her Botox, Collagen and Fillers and Wigs & hairpieces looks awful and doesn't look any younger than a woman in her mid 50s, which is what she is. All she has achieved is looking like someone who has had a lot of work - most of it unnecessary as she was lovely to begin with and probably would have aged fine.

As a woman in her 50s (I'm 55) none of these woman make me feel good about ageing. The message they send out is one of neurotic insecurity about lines and wrinkles. I'm thankful I'm not a model or a movie star obsessing about how I look.

This exactly. As a 53 year old woman, I am just horrified at how many women of my age, in the public eye have had major tweaks. Nicole Kidman looks ghastly now, I have no idea why she got all the work done, as she looked amazing. It's very depressing

I saw pictures online supposedly taken after she had the cool sculpt procedure, and to me she just looks like a woman in her late 50s that's losing skin elasticity and is getting a bit jowly along the jawline. The lengths they've gone to on the vogue shoot seem a bit ridiculous. She's still an attractive woman I really don't think the scarves etc are necessary. Another reason to make those of us ageing naturally feel a bit shit about ourselves.

If I worked in an industry that valued women almost solely on their looks and had the money and was surrounded by that, I'm sure I'd get all the procedures too. I expect I'd also lose sight of what looked normal when someone like Elisabeth Moss is always cast as the "plain" one.

They're all victims of the same shite. From where we're standing, they may look powerful to fight against it but I'm not sure they are. Their beauty is their currency, even when they're also talented actresses, and there are always a zillion stunning 20-year-olds fighting to get through the door. We all find it hard to age here, normal people among normal people...what must it be like for them?

They aren't casting agents, directors or even the general consumer public buying the magazines or seeing the films.

Sorry Lured, yes I realised it was a recent photoshoot. But the photos make her look 21 again.

I too think she's a vacuous women who can't accept ageing. I don't doubt coolsculpting was botched, but the rest of her views on life and beauty are so distorted that normal women like us can not relate to her viewpoints.

I thought the point of supermodels is that they're not relatable.

Proves the risk of defining yourself by your looks alone. They fade that’s life. If you have nothing else this must send you into a flat spin. The rest of us just deal with it and accept it and move onto other things in life. Work/relationships/hobbies/friends/travel. Clinging on like this is really sad. Why bloody care?! I turned heads in my twenties at nearly 50 I don’t - hey ho!

Clinging on like this is really sad. Why bloody care?!

Because they're supermodels/Hollywood actresses. They have far more to lose than no longer getting checked out on the street.

I'm not saying it's a good thing. It clearly isn't. But it's not fair to compare them to us mere mortals or suggest they have nothing to be upset about.

In a way, they're victims of this shite more than we are.

It’s like being a ballerina or a sportsperson L. 30 it’s pretty much over. Surely most smart adults would factor this into their life plan?!

This can’t have come as a surprise to her?!

You often see ex models in PR / estate agency anything really. If you choose a finite career you need a back up plan. Met an amazing young woman who could have been a professional tennis player she was playing for her country but at 19 was choosing university for this reason.

Dancers and athletes can usually move into training/coaching once they're no longer optimum level for performance. It's an expected pathway and your looks don't matter; you just need to be able to instruct and, possibly, demonstrate moves. Do models and actresses valued on their beauty usually have the same pathway?