Linda Evangelista reveals secret breast cancer battle: ‘I have one foot in the grave’
nypost.comWSJ Magazine on Tuesday, revealing that doctors first detected the cancer during an annual mammogram in Dec. 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,” Evangelista told the publication.
The catwalk queen subsequently believed she was cancer-free and “set for life” — but her troubles were just beginning. In Oct.
2022, the mother-of-one discovered a lump on her chest and immediately had an MRI scan. The results revealed there was cancer in her pectoral muscle. “Dig a hole in my chest,” Evangelista recalled telling her surgeon. “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.”Evangelista subsequently underwent radiation and chemotherapy, which caused her to lose her hair. “This is all new hair,” she told WSJ Magazine. “It came back very dark.
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