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Linda Evangelista has revealed she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2018 and underwent a double mastectomy.

The 58-year-old Canadian, one of the original supermodels, she found another lump in her chest Last Year .

Evangelista said her prognosis is " good but not great" adding that she has " one foot in The Grave ".

She explained she had had chemotherapy and radiotherapy for her latest tumour.

" 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, " She Said .

Last Year , The Star for the First Time since saying she had been " deformed" by a cosmetic procedure which went wrong.

Speaking ahead of The Launch of the new Apple TV+ docuseries The Super Models, which features interviews with Evangelista and other 1990s catwalk stars such as Naomi Campbell , Cindy Crawford and Christy Turlington , She Said her cancer was first detected during her annual mammogram appointment.

" 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, " she explained.

" Thinking I was good and set For Life . Breast cancer was not going to Kill Me . "

The model explained she was diagnosed in December in 2018 and it was detected during her annual mammogram.

In July Last Year , Evangelista continued, she found a lump on her chest which turned out to be cancer of the pectoral muscle.

She told her doctor to " dig a hole in my chest" if necessary, She Said .

" 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 recalled.

Evangelista, who featured on the now famous Vogue cover which heralded in the era of the supermodel, added she has " kept it quiet" while undergoing treatment and that " only a handful of people knew" about her diagnosis.

" I thought to myself, I will share this One Day but while I Am going through it, Absolutely Not . "

Earlier this year, fellow supermodel of metastatic breast cancer.

Evangelista has been gradually re-entering the spotlight recently after she spent Six Years " in hiding" due to suffering a rare reaction to a cosmetic procedure which was designed to decrease fat cells, but instead enlarged them.

Source of news: bbc.com