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She was on the cover of every fashion magazine, she was every big designer’s ultimate muse—that is until a procedure gone wrong caused her to halt her career and retreat from the spotlight.

In 2015, supermodelLinda Evangelista tried CoolSculpting—an FDA-approved procedure meant to shrink fat cells by freezing them—to non-surgically enhance some parts of her body. She went to seven sessions, targeting her chin, thighs, and bra area, but after a few months, the model realized that not only was the procedure not working, it had left her “permanently deformed,” she told People in an interview.