Model Linda Evangelista Claims That She Has Been Left 'disfigured' by Super Rare Side Effect of Cosmetic Procedure

Being famous can be hugely pressured, and the desire to look young forever is *real.* And hey, many celebs (and mere mortals, too) just want to feel comfortable and confident in their own skin—and there's zero shame in getting work done or beauty treatments that make you feel your best (you do you).

But a slew of A-list celebrities have also been open about regretting or questioning various types of work they've had done after the fact, and weren't shy about sharing that. Love Island's Molly-May even opened up this week about her lip fillers being 'one of her biggest regrets'.

From problem nose jobs to A-list botox mishaps, keep reading to see which celebrities have opened up about why they got plastic surgery or other cosmetic procedures in the first place—and why they wished they hadn't in hindsight.

OG nineties supermodel, Linda Evangelista, has claimed that she has been 'brutally disfigured' by an incredibly rare side effect of a cosmetic surgery.

The 56-year-old took to Instagram to share a piece of text in which she alleged that she has been 'permanently deformed' by the procedure, the aim of which is to freeze layers of fat under your skin, thus destroying fat cells.

She wrote: '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." '

She went on to claim that she has developed paradoxical adipose hyperplasia, which has 'destroyed her livelihood' and sent her into 'a cycle of deep depression.'

She is, she states, launching a lawsuit - assumedly against the cosmetic company - an action that she says she hopes will help her to 'move forward'.

'I would like to walk out my door with my head held high, despite not looking like myself any longer,' the note concluded.

The CoolSculpting site notes that side effects are possible after the proceure, including, in very rare cases, Paradoxical hyperplasia.

Just this week, former Love Island contestant Molly-Mae has revealed that she's had her lip fillers dissolved.

Why? She opened up to fans in a candid Instagram story where she explained that the fillers were 'one of her biggest regrets'.

She's also been undergoing the removal of other facial fillers over the past few months.

She explained: 'These are my lips before, they have lumps in, bumps in, they are uneven. I reckon in total I probably have about 5ml of filler in these all together. I've not had them done for about a year now, maybe more actually. They haven’t been done for a long time but still that filler is rock hard and thriving and needs to be gone.'

She continued: 'I really hope some of you guys learn from the mistakes I've made with filler, especially my younger followers. I started getting filler so young and it has been one of my biggest regrets. I used to be so insecure about my slightly thinner lips but now I'm older I've realised that embracing what you have naturally is so much better! (I truly mean this). Reversing all my mistakes and feeling so much better for it.'

Big kudos to Molly-Mae for doing what makes her happiest.

Jessica Simpson told Glamour in 2006 that she hated her lip injections. 'I had that Restylane stuff,' she said. 'It looked fake to me. I didn't like that. But…it went away in, like, four months. My lips are back to what they were. Thank God!'

Actor Tara Reid underwent several botched surgeries in 2004, forcing her to reverse the work in 2007. 'My stomach became the most ripply, bulgy thing,' Tara told UsWeekly. 'I had a hernia, this huge bump next to my belly button. As a result, I couldn't wear a bikini. I lost a lot of work.'

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Lisa Rinna is known for her lips, so it was a surprise when she opened up about getting her injections reduced years later. 'I have it like that for my whole career, right?' Lisa said, adding it was a 'stupid thing to do at 24.'

'So then cut to a couple of years ago, I have a doctor remove as much as they possibly can because it got to the point where they were yucky. You know, they get hard. It's gross. So they are now whatever that was after they took out as much of the silicone as they could.'

In a 2011 interview with Good Morning America, Tori Spelling said she regretted getting her breast implants. 'Well I got my boobs done in my early 20's and if I had known it would or could possibly impact production of milk, I would never had had them done,' said the Beverly Hills 90201 star and mother of five.

Chrissy Teigen revealed on Instagram in May that she was undergoing surgery to have her breast implants removed. Let's be clear: She stated that her implants 'have been great' to her but that she ultimately wanted to be comfortable in her own skin.

She opened up to Glamour UK about the breast augmentation she had when she was 20. 'You can’t set these expectations for people that everything is perfect,' Chrissy told the magazine. 'Everyone filters their sh*t, edits, or Facetunes so you forget what normal faces or bodies look like. It’s not fair and it makes you jealous of other people’s bodies. It’s lying to people by omission. But also, while you want to teach your kids to be comfortable in their own skin, you want to tell them everything you can and let them decide.'

Health guru Gwyneth Paltrow told Harper’s Bazaar that she’s tried everything when it comes to skincare, including Botox. 'I'll try anything. Except I won't do Botox again, because I looked crazy. I looked like Joan Rivers!' Gwyneth said in 2013.

Victoria Beckham wrote a letter to her younger self for British Vogue in 2017. In the letter, she admits to not only regretting her breast implants, but also to denying she had them. 'I should probably say, don’t mess with your boobs,' Victoria wrote. 'All those years I denied it—stupid. A sign of insecurity. Just celebrate what you’ve got.'

The Hills star Heidi Montag famously underwent 10 cosmetic surgeries in one day in 2010. In hindsight, the TV star regretted making so many changes to her body. “I was definitely way in over my head. I’m glad it worked out and you can’t really reverse time,” she said. 'I kind of wanted a few enhancements and then it kind of got out of hand. I wasn’t told really the repercussions and what would happen, emotionally and psychically, and the pain I would be in. I was kind of in shock.'

The Talk co-host Sharon Osbourne admitted to being on her 'third face' in 2016, though she hasn’t always liked what she had done. 'And in a lot of shots, my face looks plastic and at certain angles, I was like, ‘Oh, dear. Oh, I should never have done that. Oh, that’s a bad one,’ " she said. "So I’m like, ‘No more. No more abuse. '

After her role in Dirty Dancing, Jennifer Grey famously went under the knife for a nose job. The surgery, Jennifer said, affected her ability to get jobs. 'I went into the ­operating room a ­celebrity and came out anonymous,' she told The Mirror in 2012. 'It was the nose job from hell. I’ll always be this once-famous actress nobody recognises because of a nose job.'

Courteney Cox said many doctors suggest she get fillers every now and then, which led to layers upon layers of cosmetic enhancement that she didn’t like. 'I've had all my fillers dissolved. I'm as natural as I can be' the Friends star told New Beauty. I feel better because I look like myself. I think that I now look more like the person that I was. I hope I do,' she said.

Ever since a botched botox injection, Desperate Housewives actor Dana Delany won’t undergo any cosmetic surgery or enhancement. 'My dermatologist was saying, 'You should try it.' He injected my forehead, hit a nerve, and created a huge hematoma,' she said. "The nerve has been dead ever since. It affected the muscle in my right eye, so my eye has started to droop a little bit.'

It’s no secret Khloé Kardashian has undergone plastic surgery, but she wasn’t entirely happy with her face fillers. She had to get them dissolved because she said they made her look 'crazy.'

Nicole Kidman hasn’t gone under the knife but she has tried Botox. 'I did try Botox, unfortunately, but I got out of it and now I can finally move my face again,' the Big Little Lies star said.

Kathy Griffin has used her cosmetic procedures as inspiration for her stand-up routines. But the comedian had an awful experience with liposuction, which led to some self-revelations. 'What I can't figure out is why I wasted time worrying about my looks,' she said. 'I am a comedian. I'm not on the runway in Milan. Believe it or not, people don't come to see me really thinking I'm going to look like Jennifer Aniston.'

Though she has gotten some work done, Kim Kardashian West regretted getting Botox on an episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians. 'On the show you saw I had some bruising around my eyes after the procedure, which is totally natural, but because I hadn’t looked into the side effects, I freaked out,' she wrote. 'Botox just wasn’t necessary for me at this age.'

Joan Rivers was the queen of plastic surgeries, most of which she loved. But the late comedian said she didn’t like the results of her liposuction. 'I didn't check out the doctor and the result wasn't smooth,' she said.

Cameron Diaz tried Botox once but said she would never do that again. 'It changed my face in such a weird way that I was like, 'No, I don't want to [be] like [that]'… I'd rather see my face ageing than a face that doesn't belong to me at all,' Diaz told Entertainment Tonight in 2014.

Icon Jamie Lee Curtis said she’s had a little bit of everything when it comes to plastic surgery but that people shouldn’t waste their money. 'I've done it all. I've had a little plastic surgery,' she said. 'I've had a little lipo. I've had a little Botox. And you know what? None of it works. None of it.'

Kylie Jenner is known for her plump lips, but the entrepreneur said she regrets some of her lip injections. 'Well, I definitely made my lips a little too big at one point,' she told her sister Kim in an Allure interview. 'I got excited and felt like I needed to do a lot. And then you guys were like, 'Kylie, you need to chill.' And then I had to go back and have it fixed, and it was a crazy process. Thank God I didn't end up on Botched.'

After going under the knife for breast augmentation, model Carmen Electra said she could have gone without the surgery. 'I had breast surgery over 10 years ago, taking me from a 32B to DD, which took a bit of time to get used to,' she said. 'I didn't want to go as big as that. It's nice that I don’t have to wear a push-up bra any more, but I could have left myself alone. I think I was fine the way I was.'

Actress and activist Jane Fonda admitted to having plastic surgery, which is something she is not proud of. 'I'm not proud of the fact that I've had it. But I grew up so defined by my looks,' she said. 'I was taught to think that if I wanted to be loved, I had to be thin and pretty. That leads to a lot of trouble.'

Pamela Anderson doesn’t necessarily regret getting breast implants, but she didn’t like how big they were. In 1999, the Baywatch star had them re-augmented to a smaller size. “I just didn’t feel like it looked very good,” she said at the time. “I was really kind of being self-conscious of it.”

Priscilla Presley fell victim to a botched Botox surgery, but it turned out to be worse than normal. A 'doctor' claimed to have something better than Botox. In reality, it was reportedly illegally smuggled silicone from Argentina that was administered by someone pretending to be a doctor.

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills captured the moment Yolanda Hadid has her breast implants removed. But she didn’t stop there—she had all of her cosmetic surgeries reversed. 'Fifty five and smiling from the inside out...finally back to the original 1964. Living in a body free of breast implants, fillers, botox, extensions and all the bullshit I thought I needed in order to keep up with what society conditioned me to believe what a sexy woman should look like until the toxicity of it all almost killed me,' she wrote on instagram.

After breastfeeding two of her children, supermodel Gisele Bündchen got breast implants and immediately regretted the decision. 'I felt very vulnerable, because I can work out, I can eat healthy, but I can't change the fact that both of my kids enjoyed the left boob more than the right. All I wanted was for them to be even and for people to stop commenting on it,' Gisele told People. 'When I woke up, I was like, 'What have I done?' I felt like I was living in a body I didn't recognise. For the first year I wore [baggy] clothes because I felt uncomfortable.'

Kourtney Kardashian got breast implants when she was 22, but on an episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians, she said she wished she hadn’t. 'I had my boobs done but if I could go back, I wouldn't have done it. I was so cute before,' she said. 'I've realised that I was made to look a certain way and I'm considering removing them.'

After being diagnosed with breast cancer, model and actress Janice Dickinson wished she had never gotten breast implants. 'If I had to play my life over again, I would have never gotten breast implants in the first place,' Janice said. 'I didn't need to have a mastectomy, although I'm so blessed as just Janice being Janice that I said, 'Take them out! Take them out, cut them out! Just take them out now!'

Actor Mickey Rourke underwent facial cosmetic procedures to correct damage he sustained from his boxing career. 'Most of it was to mend the mess of my face because of the boxing, but I went to the wrong guy to put my face back together,' he said in 2009.

Glee star and dancer Heather Morris grew out of her breast implants, saying it was something she wanted when she was younger. '[They] were something I thought I wanted when I was younger, and now I don't,' she told Fitness magazine in 2011. 'It was hard being active with them, because my chest was always sore. It hurt a lot, and I didn't like always being in pain, so they had to go.'