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Linda Evangelista opened up about her most disastrous beauty decision ever in 2021. The supermodel used to go for regular CoolSculpting appointments until it all went terribly wrong five years ago. CoolSculpting is a non-surgical fat reduction procedure that uses cold temperatures to reduce fat deposits in parts of the body. Evangelista had a rare and devastating reaction called paradoxical adipose hyperplasia that caused the fat deposits to increase in size rather than decrease. She says she has been left "unrecognizable," even after two corrective surgeries. The result was that she was "permanently deformed" and turned into a recluse. 

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Linda Evangelista - Evangelista is now speaking out to rid herself of the shame she has been feeling. She revealed that she initially starved herself after the procedure, hoping to make the fat deposits disappear. When she finally went to a doctor, he diagnosed her with paradoxical adipose hyperplasia and told her no amount of dieting would change her condition. She underwent two liposuction procedures, but they didn't help at all. Evangelista doesn't recognize herself when she looks in the mirror, “but I don’t recognize me as a person any longer either.” She says she can no longer live with the pain of hiding herself away. “I hope I can shed myself of some of the shame and help other people who are in the same situation as me,” she said. “That’s my goal.”

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Tori Spelling -

Back in the '90s Tori Spelling, like many others, used to pluck her eyebrows. And, according to her 2017 interview with E! News, it is something she has clearly come to regret.

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The actress said: "It was a big deal in the '90s! No one ever told me the brow would be back, and now the brow is back. It's something that when you pluck it's really hard to get back."

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Lena Dunham -

Regret is perhaps a strong word, but at one point actress and screenwriter Lena Dunham decided to head out sporting heavily lined lips, and clearly she wasn't completely comfortable.

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Lena Dunham -

She posted a picture to her Instagram stories with the caption: "Something weird always goes down when I do my own makeup."

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Jessica Alba -

In 2016 Jessica Alba spoke to Allure about the tattoos she got as a youngster and described her regret at inking herself when she wasn't yet mature enough.

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She confessed: "You're never going to be in the same place emotionally and mentally at 18 that you are at 20 or 25 or 30... I have a few tattoos. I'm not into them now the way I was."

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Kendall Jenner -

Apparently Tori Spelling is not the only celeb who got a bit tweezer-happy when she was younger. Kendall Jenner revealed on her website that she once plucked way too much of her eyebrows.

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Speaking of the incident she said: "Thankfully, they grew back, but my sisters flipped OUT. So, yes, they grew back, but it was soooo slowly and in a kind of gross way."

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Brittany Snow -

In 2015 Brittany Snow spoke to People about the time she went to get her eyebrows waxed ahead of the 'Hairspray' (2007) premiere, and the technician waxed her whole face instead.

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She said: "I have very, very sensitive skin... In pictures I look like I'm terribly sunburned, but really it was a reaction to the wax. Never again."

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Diane Kruger -

Once when she was inbetween hair appointments, Diane Kruger took dyeing matters into her own hands. The result of her drugstore color job was apparently less than satisfactory.

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The former model told Allure: "I'm in New York, and it looked a little dull, so I just thought, I'll go to CVS and buy a gloss. Only it turned my hair a dark mud brown."

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Lucy Hale -

Actress Lucy Hale has been on a journey with her eyebrows, and not all stops along the way were great. She apparently had a unibrow as a kid, and then went through a phase of experimenting.

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She described the journey to Cosmopolitan: "Now I don't really do anything to them. Because I've had horror stories where either I over-plucked them, or finally they grew back out and I let someone touch them, and it was a disaster…"

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Cate Blanchett -

In 2015 actress Cate Blanchett revealed in an interview with Allure that she once did a DIY dye job of her arm hair, which didn't go quite as planned.

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The 'Lord of the Rings' actress revealed: "Bleaching my arm hair in high school—it was copper orange in patches and purple in others. Never again."

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Drew Barrymore -

Former child star and successful adult actress Drew Barrymore has experimented with a number of hairstyles over the years. In 2014 she spoke to People about her least favorite.

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To quote the '50 First Dates' actress: "I'd do the blow dryer and the AquaNet at the same time on my bangs. That wasn't so attractive. I looked like Peppermint Patty."

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Kylie Jenner -

The youngest member of the Kardashian-Jenner clan is known to be partial to a full lip, but she admitted to Allure in 2016 that she did take it too far at one point.

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She confessed: "I got excited and felt like I needed to do a lot." Apparently her older sisters had to step in at one point and give their baby sis a reality check.

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Jennifer Aniston -

In 2015 Jennifer Aniston told People that she regrets not using sunscreen when she was younger. Apparently she even had to stage her own intervention at one point.

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The 'Friends' actress revealed: "I was not great as a kid with sunscreen. That's one of my big regrets. Now I use Aveeno with SPF 15."

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Amy Adams -

Actress Amy Adams, who is known among other things for her naturally porcelain complexion, found herself in a strange situation once when, during a facial, the technician applied a bleaching product. 

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She told Allure: "I was getting a facial, and a woman put something on me, and it started to burn." She apparently ordered the technician to get that product off immediately!

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Mary-Kate Olsen -

In 2013 Allure asked Mary-Kate Olsen what was her biggest beauty regret, and the answer was a little surprising: hair extensions.

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She said: "I woke up one day and I said, 'You know, I don't want to wear a bikini top this summer, so I guess I'll get hair that covers my breasts.' And it did!"

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Cameron Diaz -

Actress Cameron Diaz didn't like the haircut she had just before the 2012 Oscars. The hairdresser cut it into a bob when that wasn't Diaz's intention.

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Cameron Diaz -

Although she sported the same look for 'There's Something About Mary' (1998), she was quite upset the second time round: "I just burst into tears and started crying, and I felt so vulnerable."

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Sarah Jessica Parker -

SJP also was not a fan of the bob she had cut for her 'Sex and the City' character Carrie Bradshaw. 

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Sarah Jessica Parker -

Speaking to Yahoo in 2015 she said: "That's maybe time to be forgotten and to never be discussed again!"

Sources: (People) (Marie Claire)

See also: Celebrities reveal their biggest relationship regrets

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