The supermodel is now 56 and has been in recluse for the past five years.

Yesterday, she took toInstagramto explain why, with the caption “#TheTruth.”

Evangelista developed this side effect, where the fat cells in the treatment area grow larger instead of smaller.

Linda Evangelista poses at a red carpet event

In the process, I have become a recluse" (via Instagram).

“[It] left me permanently deformed even after undergoing two painful, unsuccessful, corrective surgeries.

I have been left, as the media has described, ‘unrecognizable’.”

Linda Evangelista poses in a black dress

I’m so tired of living this way."