Susan Carland weighs in on Linda Evangelista’s ‘full-on hijab look’

Muslim academic Susan Carland has weighed in on Linda Evangelista’s ‘full-on hijab look’ from the supermodel’s Vogue magazine shoot.

Evangelista, 57, graced the cover of British Vogue this week in a conservative headscarf to cover up a ‘disfigurement’ from a beauty treatment. 

In a series of Instagram posts on Thursday, Carland, who is the wife of TV host Waleed Aly, responded to some criticism online that Evangelista, as a non-Muslim, shouldn’t have worn a hijab-style garment.

‘Some people have asked if I have a problem with how Linda is dressing. I don’t at all,’ she said.

‘My understanding is Linda started dressing like this after she was “brutally disfigured” (her words) after a cosmetic procedure,’ she continued.

‘She’s not dressing like this to imitate (or mock) Muslim women. She’s doing so because that’s how she now feels comfortable. 

‘If dressing like this helps her feel better about herself after her experience, good luck to her! Welcome to the headscarf sisterhood, Linda.’

‘Some people have asked if I have a problem with how Linda is dressing. I don’t at all,’ Carland told her followers

She also said that it wasn’t ‘problematic’ for Linda to ‘imitate’ Muslim women

Evangelista said that her face had been left ‘brutally disfigured’ resulting in her looking ‘unrecognizable’ after she suffered from a rare reaction to a fat freezing procedure known as CoolSculpting.

She spent the last six years ‘in hiding’, but has recently returned to the public eye with a series of high profile photoshoots and interviews.  

The model now travels with a Coolibar scarf in the bag, in case she has to ‘cover her chin,’ due to the results of the botched procedure she underwent six years ago.

Carland is a Muslim academic and is also known for her marriage to The Project’s Waleed Aly. Pictured together

The surgery was designed to decrease her fat cells, but instead, it made them become enlarged – resulting in Linda developing ‘bulges’ all over her body, due to a condition called paradoxical adipose hyperplasia.

PAH is a rare adverse effect of cryolipolysis, which has been reported in of 0.0051 per cent of the 1.5 million CoolSculpting procedures performed worldwide.

She has since undergone two liposuction surgeries in an attempt to fix the problem, and announced back in February that she was done living in ‘shame.’

Now, she recently returned to modelling – and she looked flawless on the cover of British Vogue’s September issue.

Evangelista (pictured) spent the last six years ‘in hiding’, but has recently returned to the public eye with a series of high profile photoshoots and interviews

However, while discussing the shoot in a behind-the-scenes video, she admitted that her jaw and neck don’t look like that ‘in real life’ and that makeup artist Pat McGrath had to use tape and elastics to pull her features back, which she covered with scarves and hats.

She explained that she is still ‘trying to love herself’ after becoming ‘so depressed’ following the faulty procedure, and that using the tape ‘took care of’ her ‘insecurities’ so that she could feel confident while ‘doing what she loves to do’ again.

She told Vogue: ‘That’s not my jaw and neck in real life – and I can’t walk around with tape and elastics everywhere. I’m trying to love myself as I am.

‘But for the photos… Look, for photos I always think we’re here to create fantasies. We’re creating dreams. I think it’s allowed. All my insecurities are taken care of in these pictures, so I got to do what I love to do.’

The model, 57, graced the cover of British Vogue this week in a conservative headscarf to cover up a ‘disfigurement’ from CoolSculpting