Episode 124
The promise of CoolSculpting
How a lucrative fantasy collided with the reality of the body.
The Slow Newscast · Alice Sandelson
January 6, 202244m 4s
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Show Notes
Linda Evangelista’s beauty made her a super-brand in the 1990s. But then, she disappeared. Until September 2021, when she revealed on Instagram details of a lawsuit. She claimed that a procedure called CoolSculpting, promising to freeze away unwanted fat, had instead multiplied it into “masses”. And she isn’t the only one…
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