SUPERMODEL Linda Evangelista has revealed she’s secretly battling cancer at the age of 58 and has “one foot in the grave”.
The Canadian catwalk queen and mother-of-one also revealed she’s already had a double mastectomy when she was first diagnosed with breast cancer in December 2018.
The new bombshell comes after Linda was left disfigured by a fat removal procedure went horribly wrong and she piled on pounds of hard fat that destroyed her career.
It also follows Tatjana Patitz dying of breast cancer earlier this year aged 56.
She was one of the five supermodels who featured in the iconic Vogue cover heralded as the “birth certificate” of supermodels.
After surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy for the latest tumour, she has been told that her prognosis is “good but not great” adding: “Once it’s come back, there’s a chance. I know I have one foot in the grave, but I’m totally in celebration mode.”
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Talking to the Wall Street Journal, Linda described when it was diagnosed the first time round.
She said: “It was detected in my annual mammogram. 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.”
But in July of last year she found a lump on her chest and had an MRI and a biopsy which revealed she had cancer in her pectoral muscle.
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She told her surgeon to do whatever it took, adding: “Dig a hole in my chest.
"I don’t want it to look pretty. 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.”
She explained how she then started a course of radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Linda said: “I just went into this mode that I know how to do—just do what you’ve got to do and get through it. And that’s what I did.
“I’ve kept it quiet. Only a handful of people knew. And I’m 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.”
Linda, who has a 16-year-old son called Augustin James with French billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault, was one of the biggest supermodels of the Nineties.
She famously said they wouldn’t “Get out of bed for less than $10,000” a comment that sparked a backlash against them by the turn of the Millennium.
Linda’s new health bombshell comes just two years after she revealed she’d been left disfigured by a CoolSculpting fat removal procedure she went through that actually led to her piling ON weight – in the form of hard blobs of fat that can’t be removed.
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It had left her a virtual hermit and, until recently, had stalled her fashion career while many of her catwalk peers were still working.
Linda is appearing in an upcoming documentary The Supermodels for Apple TV+ in which she appears alongside Naomi Campbell, 53, Cindy Crawford, 57, and Christy Turlington, 54.
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