Linda Evangelista’s life has by no means been an strange one. In any case, she’s not only a mannequin, she’s one of many authentic Supermodels, capital S included.
In an interview with Vogue, the place she shares the September cowl with fellow Supers Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, and Christy Turlington, Evangelista additionally shared some particulars of her extraordinary blended household setup: She shares a son, Augustin (she calls him Augie), with billionaire ex-boyfriend François-Henri Pinault, whom she dated in 2005 and 2006. Salma Hayek and Pinault welcomed daughter Valentina in 2007 earlier than tying the knot in 2009.
As an alternative of a convoluted custody-sharing settlement, alternating Christmases and what have you ever, Evangelista revealed that she sometimes spends holidays with the total blended household, stepmom Hayek included. As soon as, when Evangelista was too sick to journey, Hayek went above and past to make it possible for her co-mom nonetheless received the total household expertise.
“I used to be sick at Thanksgiving and Salma received on the aircraft along with her daughter, got here right here, and made Thanksgiving dinner,” Evangelista mentioned. Hayek even took requests. “I wished her Mexican hen with truffled potatoes. And she or he spent the day within the kitchen and cooked it herself. No assist. The youngsters helped her on the finish. She made a feast—a lovely, lovely meal. I had advised her that I wasn’t going to have Thanksgiving; I wasn’t feeling properly. And she or he mentioned, ‘Oh sure you might be: I’m coming.’ And poof, she was right here.”
Evangelista additionally spoke of making an attempt to not let her notoriety bleed into her son’s life. These courtside seat affords at Madison Sq. Backyard are now not rolling in, and she or he’s chill with it.
“Now we purchase our tickets and we sit with the followers in nosebleed—we’re fantastic with that,” she mentioned. “I wished to have a really regular upbringing for my youngster.”
Augie, it appears, may somewhat have a much less regular upbringing. She recalled him as soon as asking why they have been standing in line.
“What’s flawed with standing on this line? I stand in traces. We went to Chanel a few weeks in the past to get a gift and we waited half an hour to get in,” she recalled telling him. “He mentioned, ‘Isn’t there somebody you could possibly name?’ I are not looking for an entitled youngster.”
She mentioned that apart from modeling, her solely dream rising up was to have a household “and to have correct conversations on the dinner desk and wonderful meals.” In Augie, she’s discovered precisely that.
“My father didn’t allow us to communicate on the desk; he had a lot noise all day lengthy working in a Common Motors manufacturing unit that when he got here dwelling he wished peace and quiet,” she mentioned. “I’m a single mom with a toddler—however that’s all that you must make a household, two folks.”
After a CoolSculpting process left her, in her phrases, “brutally disfigured,” Evangelista is grappling with the thought of magnificence and ageing, and the way she desires to work together with them.
“I need wrinkles—however I Botox my brow so I’m a hypocrite—however I wish to develop previous,” she advised Vogue. “I wish to watch my son develop right into a fantastic younger man. I simply wish to stick round.”
