![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/supermodel-linda-evangelista-reveals-breast-cancer-diagnosis-and-double-mastectomy/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/newspress-collage-23818236-1693930792069.jpg&description=HEALTH BATTLE Published : 17:26, 5 Sep 2023 Updated : 17:31, 5 Sep 2023 SUPERMODEL Linda Evangelista has revealed she's secretly battling cancer at the age of 58 and has 'one foot in the grave'. The Canadian catwalk queen and mother-of-one also revealed she's already had a double mastectomy when she was first diagnosed with breast cancer in December 2018. 2 Supermodel Linda Evangelista has revealed she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2018 Credit: Rex 2 The star, pictured in 2008, said she told doctors 'I am not dying from this' Credit: PA The new bombshell comes after Linda was left disfigured by a fat removal procedure went horribly wrong and she piled on pounds of hard fat that destroyed her career. It also follows Tatjana Patitz dying of breast cancer earlier this year aged 56. She was one of the five supermodels who featured in the iconic Vogue cover heralded as the 'birth certificate' of supermodels. After surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy for the latest tumour, she has been told that her prognosis is 'good but not great' adding: 'Once it's come back, there's a chance. I know I have one foot in the grave, but I'm totally in celebration mode.' Talking to the Wall Street Journal , Linda described when it was diagnosed the first time round. She said: 'It was detected in my annual mammogram. 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.' But in July of last year she found a lump on her chest and had an MRI and a biopsy which revealed she had cancer in her pectoral muscle. She told her surgeon to do whatever it took, adding: 'Dig a hole in my chest. "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.' She explained how she then sta){kind=link}
SUPERMODEL Linda Evangelista has revealed she’s secretly battling cancer at the age of 58 and has “one foot in the grave”.
The Canadian catwalk queen and mother-of-one also revealed she’s already had a double mastectomy when she was first diagnosed with breast cancer in December 2018.
The new bombshell comes after Linda was left disfigured by a fat removal procedure went horribly wrong and she piled on pounds of hard fat that destroyed her career.
It also follows Tatjana Patitz dying of breast cancer earlier this year aged 56.
She was one of the five supermodels who featured in the iconic Vogue cover heralded as the “birth certificate” of supermodels.