Model Linda Evangelista has had breast cancer twice in 5 years

She revealed her health issues in an interview with The Wall Street Journal magazine.

Linda Evangelista, the model who rose to fame in the 1990s, revealed in an interview that she had survived two breast cancers in five years.

The model has describes her diagnoses and multiple health issues in an interview with The Wall Street Journal Magazine that was published Tuesday.

Ms. Evangelista, 58, said she was first diagnosed in 2018 after an annual mammogram. The magazine noted that this was the first time she had spoken publicly about her cancer.

Ms. Evangelista did not immediately respond to comments on Tuesday.

In response to her diagnosis, she said she opted to have a bilateral mastectomy, "thinking that I "I was good and ready for life. Breast cancer wasn't going to kill me."

However, four years later, in 2022, she learned that the cancer had returned, this time in her pectoral muscle.< /p>

She remembers telling her surgeon, “Dig a hole in my chest.”

"I don't want it's to look pretty. I want you to dig around. I want to see a hole in my chest when you're done," she had told her doctors." Do you understand me? I don't die from this.

After a second surgery, Ms. Evangelista in the interview described her current prognosis as "good," as her post says. -oncologist specializing in cancer care.

However, she said, her doctor gave her a "horrible oncotype score," a number which represents the risk of cancer recurrence.

Yet, she says, the uncertainty has made her days more precious.

"I know I have one foot in this is serious, but I'm totally in celebration mode," she said.

Breast cancer diagnoses haven't been Ms. Evangelista's only health concern in recent years.

Two years ago, in a post on Instagram, she revealed that side effects of CoolSculpting, a 'fat freezing' procedure, had left her 'permanently deformed' and 'brutally disfigured' she had developed paradoxical adipose hyperplasia, an effect in which masses of firm tissue develop in treatment areas.

This condition, she said, caused her to become depressed and reclusive after "I don't looks more like me. She then sued Zeltiq Aesthetics, the company behind the lawsuit, for $50 million and settled in July 2022 in an undisclosed amount.

Mrs. Evangelista was one of the top five models in the world in the 1990s, and she has continued to work and come back into the limelight since her CoolSculpting procedures and side effects. The interview was part of a publicity effort to promote the release this month of a book of photographs of Ms. Evangelista by her longtime collaborator, fashion photographer Steven Meisel.

In 2022 she appeared on the cover of British Vogue and from September 20 she will appear in a new Apple TV+ documentary, 'The Super Models'. The project will reunite her with other 90s models, including Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell and Cindy Crawford. In 1990, the four women appeared syncing the lyrics to George Michael's video, "Freedom!" 1990. »

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