Plastic surgery: why chasing physical perfection always ends in tears

As former supermodel Linda Evangelista reveals her years of anguish after operations, history shows that nature usually wins

I’m actually rather sorry for Linda Evangelista. Everybody wants to feel acceptable, after all, and she exists in a world where, despite all the modern declarations of diversity and body positivity, when the woman hits the catwalk she still has to be slim.

In her 50s, and gobsmackingly pretty, Evangelista chose to get a treatment called cryolipolysis, where body fat is frozen till it dies, and you poop it out. It went wrong, and though she doesn’t look particularly unusual to me, she – much because of the world she’s always lived in – feels brutally disfigured.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/F3qsnCU

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