Linda Evangelista Reveals She Battled Breast Cancer Twice In The Past 5 Years, Says She’s In ‘Celebration Mode’ Despite Unclear Future
etcanada.comLinda Evangelista is opening up about her breast cancer journey for the first time. For her September digital cover story of WSJ.
Magazine’s Fall Men’s Style issue, the Canadian supermodel, 58, reveals she was diagnosed with the disease twice in the last five years. “It was detected in my annual mammogram,” she tells the publication of her first diagnosis in 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.” READ MORE: Linda Evangelista Makes Her Triumphant Return To The Runway Following her remission, Evangelista felt a lump on her breast in July 2022, to which she quickly discovered that her breast cancer had returned.
After her second diagnosis, the model recalls telling her oncologist: “Dig a hole in my chest. I don’t want it to look pretty.
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