The model had to tape her jaw and neck to appear on the magazine's new cover, years after a botched cosmetic procedure sent her into seclusion.
Last September, Evangelista filed a $50 million lawsuit against CoolSculpting’s parent company, Zeltiq Aesthetics Inc., for damages, claiming that since undergoing seven sessions of the non-invasive procedure from August 2015 to February 2016, she’s been unable to book modeling gigs due to the damage incurred from the treatments.
covers and willingly subjected herself to a whole host bodily harm to maintain thinness and an illusion of youth—must be shrouded in distracting accessories, taped to mimic the bone structure of her youth, and retouched within an inch of her life, just so she’s able to work. Even still, Evangelista seems sadly resigned to the business’s binary views of what and who is beautiful enough to sustain the vile fashion industrial complex.
“I miss my work so much, but honestly, what can I do?” she said. “You’re not going to see me in a swimsuit, that’s for sure. It’s going to be difficult to find jobs with things protruding from me; without retouching, or squeezing into things, or taping things or compressing or tricking…”British Vogue,
who bungled an opportunity to depict reality and instead, opted for fantasy yet again.
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