As she gears up for the discharge of a brand new e-book honoring her legacy, Linda Evangelista is talking publicly about her breast most cancers prognosis for the primary time.
The supermodel graces the digital cowl of WSJ Magazine’s fall difficulty, unveiled Tuesday. In the accompanying interview, she reveals that she was identified with breast most cancers twice ― first in 2018 after which once more in 2022.
“It was detected in my annual mammogram,” Evangelista mentioned of 2018. “The margins were not good, and due to other health factors, without hesitation, because I wanted to put everything behind me and not to have to deal with this, I opted for a bilateral mastectomy. Thinking I was good and set for life. Breast cancer was not going to kill me.”
Unfortunately, Evangelista’s remission didn’t final for lengthy. In July 2022, she as soon as once more detected a lump in her breast. After it was confirmed that her breast most cancers had returned, she instructed her oncologist to “dig a hole in my chest.”
“I don’t want it to look pretty,” she recalled telling surgeons. “I want you to excavate. I want to see a hole in my chest when you’re done. Do you understand me? I’m not dying from this.”
As to her need to remain quiet about her prognosis till now, Evangelista says she’s “just not one of those people who has to share everything.”
“I thought to myself, I will share this one day but while I am going through it, absolutely not,” she defined. “I don’t want the Daily Mail waiting outside my door like they do every time something happens. ‘Linda seen for the first time since blah blah blah.’”
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The revelation comes a bit greater than every week forward of the discharge of “Linda Evangelista Photographed by Steven Meisel.” Due out Sept. 13, the e-book serves as a colourful retrospective of Evangelista’s decadeslong profession within the vogue trade.
It options greater than 200 pictures taken by Meisel, who’s finest recognized for his work with Madonna, Mariah Carey and different high stars. He additionally photographed Evangelista for WSJ Magazine’s cowl.
Though that is the primary time Evangelista has spoken about her prognosis on the document, she appeared to trace at her sickness whereas addressing her friendship with actor Salma Hayek in an interview with Vogue final month. Hayek is married to French businessman François-Henri Pinault, who shares a 16-year-old son, Augustin James, with Evangelista.
“I was sick at Thanksgiving,” mentioned Evangelista, who was in a relationship with Pinault from 2005 to 2006. “And Salma got on the plane with her daughter, came here, and made Thanksgiving dinner.”
These days, the mannequin tells WSJ Magazine that her prognosis is “good,” however acknowledges: “Well, once it’s come back, there’s a chance.”
As to her “uncertain” future, she provides: “I know I have one foot in the grave, but I’m totally in celebration mode.”
