Linda Evangelista was born on May 10, 1965 and she is a Canadian model and one of the top supermodels of the 1990s.
Linda Evangelista Biography
She was born on May 10, 1965, to Italian immigrants from Pignataro Interamna. The second of three children, she grew up in a working -class Roman Catholic home in the city of her birth, St. Catharines , Ontario , where she attended. Denis Morris Catholic High School.
Her father, Tomaso, worked for General Motors, and died on January 17, 2014. Her mother, Marisa, she was an accountant.
She attended a self-improvement course at a modeling school at the age of 12, where she was taught things like poise and etiquette, and was advised to attend a course of modeling.
As a teenager, she began modeling locally in her hometown. In 1981, she participated in the Miss Teen Niagara beauty pageant. And although she did not win the contest, her presence caught the attention of a representative from Elite Model Management.
At the age of 16, she flew to Japan to model there, but an unpleasant experience involving nudity during an assignment made her want to quit modeling altogether. She returned to Canada, and it was two years before she decided to try her hand at modeling again.
Linda Evangelista Disfigured
She has been one of the most popular top of the 90s and for a few months she has been living a real hell. The 56-year-old Canadian model underwent an aesthetic treatment that deformed her face. She has reappeared on the cover of People to recount her ordeal: “I am not able to look at myself in the mirror.”
She was explaining last September that she had turned to the company CoolSculpting to rejuvenate her face. However, after three months, lumps of fat began to appear all over her body: chin, thighs, chest… “I thought I was doing something wrong and tried to fix it by not eating. I thought I was going crazy.”
Linda Evangelista Now
Today, she says she is “satisfied” after having solved the CoolSculpting case . This has been communicated through his Instagram account, where he has added that he is looking forward to starting a new stage in his life: “I am looking forward to the next chapter of my life with friends and family, and I am happy to leave this matter behind. I am truly grateful for the support I have received from those who have been close.” At the moment, details of the agreement between the company and the supermodel are unknown.
Sources close to the model have revealed to People that this seems to be the conclusion that Evangelista needed to move forward: “With this agreement and her recent Fendi campaign, Linda is ready to turn the page. 
She was hiding many years and she is now coming out again.” In that interview with the same medium where she revealed the reasons that kept her away from the world, she also confessed how much she loved her profession: “I loved getting on the catwalk, now I’m afraid to meet someone I know.”
At the moment, she has not been on any catwalk, but she has starred in the latest Fendi campaign , which celebrates the emblematic baguette bag , an icon of the house.
When she return she was surrounded by a good handful of friends and trusted people: the photographer Steven Meisel, with whom she made some of the most memorable campaigns and editorials of her career, and her friend Kim Jones, current artistic director of Fendi and Dior Man.
Linda Evangelista Career
She is considered one of the most successful and influential models of all time, and has appeared on more than 700 magazine covers.
She is primarily known for being the ” muse ” of photographer Steven Meisel , as well as the line “We don’t wake up for less than $10,000 a day.” She holds the record for the most multiple appearances of hers on the cover of Vogue Italia , all of which were photographed by Meisel .
Her modeling career began in 1984 when she signed with Elite Model Management after moving from her native Canada to New York City. 
At the suggestion of photographer Peter Lindbergh , she cut her hair in 1988. The haircut, nicknamed “La Linda“, not only spawned many copies around the world, but also benefited Evangelista’s career and helped usher in from the supermodel era .
She moved to New York City in 1984 after signing with Elite, where she met prominent modeling agent John Casablancas, who likened her resemblance to model Joan Severance. Elite then moved Evangelista to Paris, where she launched her international career in haute couture at the age of 19.
Her first major fashion magazine cover of hers was for the November 1984 issue of L’Officiel . She would subsequently go on to appear on the covers and pages of a variety of international publications such as Vogue , Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Mademoiselle, Elle, Marie Claire, Allure , Time , Interview , Newsweek , Rolling Stone , Cigar Aficionado and iD . All this adding up to a total of more than 700 covers worldwide.
In 1985, she began working with Karl Lagerfeld, the chief designer of the Chanel fashion house, to whom she would become a muse. On the subject of Evangelista, Lagerfeld once said: “There is no other model in the world as professional as her.”
Incidentally, she became one of the first editorial models to successfully cross over into the realm of runway modeling. She also became a muse for the late fashion designer Gianni Versace,for whom she first appeared in advertising campaigns in 1987.
In addition to her work for Versace and Lagerfeld, she was also modeling for various other fashion brands such as Valentino, Dolce & Gabbana, Gianfranco Ferré, Ralph Lauren, Yves Saint Laurent, Azzedine Alaïa, Oscar de la Renta, Giorgio Armani, Thierry Mugler, Claude Montana, Donna Karan, Jil Sander, Jean Paul Gaultier, Alberta Ferretti, Isaac Mizrahi, Escada, Calvin Klein, Salvatore Ferragamo, Max Mara, Perry Ellis, Chloé, Comme des Garçons, Bill Blass and Herve Leger.
Ella y Ella has represented a wide range of other non-fashion related companies and brands such as Visa, American Express, Pizza Hut, De Beers and Elizabeth Arden.
In 1986, she met photographer Steven Meisel, with whom he struck up a friendship. From that point on, they began working together on many professional collaborations, and Ella Evangelista became Meisel’s muse in the process.
Beginning in 1987, she began appearing in advertisements and commercials for Revlon’s “The World’s Most Unforgettable Women” campaign, which was photographed by Richard Avedon.
She was photographed by the likes of Peter Lindbergh, Irving Penn, Francesco Scavullo, Herb Ritts, Bruce Weber, Gian Paolo Barbieri, Patrick Demarchelier, Paolo Roversi, Norman Parkinson, Arthur Elgort, Gilles Bensimon, Ellen von Unwerth, Sante D’Orazio and Nick Knight among others.
Linda Evanghelista And Child Support Case
In October 2006, she gave birth to a son, Augustin James, refusing to name his father, sparking rumours. While she was pregnant, she appeared on the August 2006 cover of Vogue . 
In late June 2011, she filed court documents that revealed her son was fathered by French billionaire François-Henri Pinault, whom she had dated for four months in late 2005 and early 2006.
Pinault later married the actress Salma Hayek . After several court appearances with the goal of establishing a child support agreement, on August 1, 2011, she formally filed for a child support order in Manhattan Family Court, requesting $46,000 in monthly child support from Pinault. It was reported that, if awarded, this amount “would likely be the largest child support order in family court history.”
A highly publicized child support trial began on May 3, 2012, and included testimony from both Pinault and her, with her attorney stating that Pinault had never supported the child. Several days after the trial began, on May 7, 2012, she and Pinault reached an out-of-court settlement.
Linda Evanghelista Activism And Awards
She is an activist for HIV/AIDS research and awareness, as well as breast cancer research and awareness. She was one of the icons of the Viva Glam campaign for the Mac AIDS Fund. 
In October 2013, she hosted amfAR’s Inaugural Inspiration Gala in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She also supports the Elton John AIDS Foundation and is an advocate for LGBT concerns.
In 1996, she received VH1’s Fashion Awards Lifetime Achievement Award, which was presented to her by Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of Vogue . In June 2003, she received a star on Canada’s Walk of Fame in Toronto.
In 2005, she was named a World Fashion Icon by the Women’s World Awards in Leipzig, Germany. In March 2008, she was voted “The Greatest Supermodel of All Time” by a viewer poll for the CBC Television show Fashion Archive .
Linda Evangelista Net Worth
The successful Canadian supermodel has a net worth of $25 million.
Linda Evangelista Personal Life
In 1987, she married Gérald Marie, who was the head of the Elite Model Management office in Paris. They divorced in 1993. She also dated actor Kyle MacLachlan, whom she met at a photo shoot for Barneys New York in 1992. the couple became engaged in 1995 but separated in 1998. 
She subsequently dated French soccer player Fabien Barthez. She became pregnant but miscarried six months into the pregnancy. The couple separated in 2000, met in 2001, and then officially ended their relationship in 2002.
