Linda Evangelista Swears Off Dating: "I Crave Silence, Not Someone's Breathing" | Vanity Fair

Written by Kase Wickman

Linda Evangelista gives a voice to unspoken feelings, perhaps not as loudly as a snoring significant other. This supermodel is living in an era of brutal personal honesty, coming off her reveal about a 2016 CoolSculpting procedure that left her "permanently disfigured", and two fights with breast cancer in the past five years. In a conversation with the Sunday Times in the UK, Evangelista declared that she has no interest in dating, and in fact, hasn’t had a date since "before the CoolSculpting."

“I don’t want to sleep with anybody anymore,” Evangelista confessed in the interview. “I don’t want to hear someone breathing.”

Evangelista was previously married to Gérald Marie, but they divorced in 1993. She later entered a relationship with François-Henri Pinault between 2005 and 2006, father of her son, Augustin. Pinault is now married to Salma Hayek. Evangelista has spoken about their extended family and shared holiday times together.

Evangelista admitted that she became a recluse and suffered from depression following the aftereffects of her cosmetic surgery. It was her son's question, “remember when you used to have fun?” that triggered changes in her lifestyle.

“That was a wake-up call,” she admitted. “I was like, no more self-pity. I’m going to fix this.”

“I no longer blame myself,” she further added. 'Although it’s not fully gone yet, I am working hard to shake off the guilt and shame. And I won’t let it destroy my life. I wouldn’t have kept myself hidden away if I knew how many people cared.”

Evangelista joins a series of successful women who have publicly declared the benefits of living single, avoiding the regular annoyances that a romantic relationship can generate. Whoopi Goldberg, for instance, in 2016, boldly declared despite her previous marriages, “I’m much happier on my own.”

“I can spend as much time with someone as I choose, but I’m not looking to be with someone forever or cohabit with someone,” she declared to the New York Times Magazine. “I don’t want someone in my house.