Supermodel Linda Evangelista has taken part in her first photoshoot since saying that her life had been "destroyed" after her face was left "permanently deformed".
The 56-year-old suffered rare side effects to a cosmetic procedure she had six years ago and subsequently retreated from the public eye.
Linda - who rose to fame alongside the likes of Naomi Campbell and Cindy Crawford - claimed in September that she had been left disfigured after undergoing the CoolSculpting procedure.
The procedure, which she underwent from August 2015 to February 2016, had been supposed to reduce her fat cells, but suffered from paradoxical adipose hyperplasia - a rare adverse effect that actually saw her fat cells increased.
She will be appearing on the next front cover of People magazine and has opened up about how she now "dreads running into someone [she] knows".
Breaking down in tears during the interview, she revealed that she "couldn't live in this pain any longer" and was finally willing to speak.
According to the publication, the model is suing Zeltiq Aesthetics Inc, CoolSculpting's parent company, for £36million ($50million) in damages after alleging that she has been unable to work since suffering from the rare side effect.
Following the procedure, she began to notice bulges in areas she had wanted to shrink and tried to fix the issues through dieting and exercising more.
"I got to where I wasn't eating at all," she said. "I thought I was losing my mind."
Eventually, Linda visited her doctor in June 2016 and she was diagnosed with Paradoxical adipose hyperplasia (PAH) and was told that no amount of exercise was ever going to fix it.
A representative for CoolSculpting responded to her allegations and told the publication that the procedure "has been well studied with more than 100 scientific publications and more than 11 million treatments performed worldwide and said that rare side effects such as PAH "continue to be well-documented in the CoolSculpting information for patients and health care providers".
It comes after Linda shared her experience for the first time on Instagram last autumn and revealed that she had had two corrective surgeries that had attempted to undo the damage.
She said: "Today I took a big step towards righting a wrong that I have suffered and have kept myself for over five years.
"To my followers who have wondered why I have not been working while my peers’ careers have been thriving, the reason is that I was brutally disfigured by Zeltiq’s CoolSculpting procedure which did the opposite of what it promised.
"It increased, not decreased, my fat cells and left me permanently deformed even after undergoing two painful, unsuccessful, corrective surgeries. I have been left, as the media has described, 'unrecognisable.'"
