Linda Evangelista has first announced that she was diagnosed with breast cancer and quietly underwent a double mastectomy five years ago.
In a new interview with WSJ Magazinethe 58-year-old supermodel opened up about her diagnosis in December 2018, which led to a double mastectomy, before discovering another lump in her breast last year.
Evangelista’s first encounter with cancer was at her annual mammogram.
“The margins were not good and for other health reasons I had no hesitation in opting for a bilateral mastectomy because I wanted to get away from it all and not have to deal with it.” I thought I was good and ready for life . “Breast cancer wouldn’t kill me,” she said in an interview published Tuesday.
Linda Evangelista opens up about her breast cancer diagnosis in 2018 for the first time
Unfortunately, she experienced another cancer scare in July last year after discovering a lump in her breast
Unfortunately, she experienced another cancer scare in July last year after discovering a lump in her breast.
The supermodel recalled that her oncologist was “unimpressed” but still went for an MRI.
What was found on the MRI prompted her doctor to perform a biopsy. It turned out that she had breast cancer.
At the time, Evangelista said she told her doctor, “Dig a hole in my chest.”
“I don’t want it to look pretty.” I want you to dig. I want to see a hole in my chest when you’re done. Do you understand me? I’m not dying of it.’
She has since been told by doctors that her prognosis was good, leading her to question why the prognosis was not “good,” and when informed, “Well, if it comes back, there’s a chance.”
Evangelista said she has “a terrible oncotype score,” a number that predicts the likelihood of the cancer coming back.
“I know I have one foot in the grave, but I’m totally in celebration mode,” she added.
It turned out that she had breast cancer. At the time, Evangelista said she told her doctor, “Dig a hole in my chest… I’m not dying from this.”
Doctors told her her prognosis was good but not “great.”
The supermodel is pictured here in 2018, the year she was diagnosed and underwent a double mastectomy
The supermodel said “only a handful of people knew” she had cancer.
It’s unclear if she had breast reconstruction after her bilateral mastectomy.
Evangelista also sheds light on her close relationship with Salma Hayek, who is married to her son’s father, Kering CEO François-Henri Pinault.
The supermodel and Pinault share Augustin James, who is now 16, after the former couple’s brief relationship.
“I love this woman. She is a woman’s wife. Just like me, [she’s] so family oriented and so positive. She is a blessing to us… “She was very, very generous and kind to me while I was going through my chemo,” Evangelista said of Hayek.
However, this isn’t the first health struggle Evangelista has faced. She previously opened up about a botched cosmetic surgery that left her face “brutally disfigured.”
She spent six years “in hiding” after suffering a rare reaction to the procedure known as CoolSculpting, which aimed to shrink her fat cells but enlarge them instead.
The model previously told Vogue that she was “so depressed” after a CoolSculpting procedure that she “hated herself.”
Evangelista also sheds light on her close relationship with Salma Hayek, who is married to her son’s father, Kering CEO François-Henri Pinault. The supermodel pictured with her son
However, this isn’t the first health struggle Evangelista has faced. She previously opened up about a botched cosmetic surgery that left her face “brutally disfigured.” She is pictured here in August 2022
She claimed the flawed procedure caused her to lose her livelihood and had things “sticking out” of her body.
Linda underwent two liposuction surgeries to fix the problem and announced back in February 2022 that she was done living in “shame.”
In September 2022, Linda announced on Instagram that she had filed a lawsuit against Zeltiq Aesthetics in New York for serious injuries, which has since been settled.
Linda said, “If I had known that the side effects could cause you to lose your livelihood and end up getting so depressed you hate yourself … I wouldn’t have taken that risk.”
“Am I mentally healed? Absolutely not. But I’m so thankful for the support I’ve had from my friends and my industry… You won’t see me in a bathing suit, that’s for sure.
“It’s going to be difficult to find jobs where things stick out of me; without retouching or forcing things in or sticking things or compressing or tricking.’
What is CoolSculpting?
The CoolSculpting® Fat Freezing Procedure is a non-surgical fat reduction treatment that uses controlled cooling, called cryolipolysis, to remove stubborn fat that is difficult to remove even with diet and exercise.
CoolSculpting® technology delivers precisely controlled cooling that specifically targets the fat cells beneath the skin while leaving the skin itself untouched.
No needles are used and downtime after treatment is minimal. CoolSculpting® is available in over 74 countries and to date over 8 million treatment cycles have been performed worldwide.
CoolSculpting’s popularity as a fat removal procedure is increasing in the United States. The treatment received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval in 2010.
A 2009 study looked at the effectiveness of cryolipolysis. Researchers found that cryolipolysis reduced the treated fat layer by up to 25 percent.
Six months after treatment, the results were still there. Frozen, dead fat cells are eliminated from the body via the liver within a few weeks of treatment, allowing full fat loss results to be seen within three months.
SOURCE: COOLSCULPTING.COM and HEALTHLINE.COM
