Linda Evangelista Opens Up About Having Breast Cancer Twice in 5 Years

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Linda Evangelista is opening up about her health. The 58-year-old supermodel spoke out about her ongoing health battles in an interview with WSJ.

Magazine‘s Fall Men’s Style isue. During the conversation, Linda shared that she was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2018. Keep reading to find out more… “It was detected in my annual mammogram,” she said. “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.” However, in July of 2022, Linda felt a lump on her breast and she learned it came back. “Dig a hole in my chest,” she told her oncologist after her second diagnosis. “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.” “I just went into this mode that I know how to do — just do what you’ve got to do and get through it,” she added. “And that’s what I did.” Her post-cancer care oncologist told her that her prognosis is “good” recently, but she wasn’t entirely thrilled with the news, asking her doctor, “Why isn’t it great?” “Well, once it’s come back, there’s a chance,” the doctor told her, adding that she also received a “horrible oncotype score,” a number that represents the recurrence risk of cancer. Linda said because her future is uncertain, she’s simply grateful for each day. “I know I have one foot in the grave, but I’m totally in celebration mode.