Linda Evangelista Family: All about Linda Evangelista Parents and Siblings

Linda Evangelista (born May 10, 1965, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada), is a Canadian fashion model.

Evangelista was one of the most famous supermodels in the 90s.

She has been featured on more than 700 magazine covers and was the longtime muse of photographer Steven Meisel.

Evangelista’s modelling career began in 1984 when she signed with Elite Model Management after having moved from her native Canada to New York City.

Upon the suggestion of photographer Peter Lindbergh, Evangelista had her hair cut short in 1988.

The haircut, nicknamed “The Linda”, not only sparked many copies worldwide, but it also benefited Evangelista’s career and helped usher in the era of the supermodel.

Linda Evangelista
Described as the “chameleon” of the fashion industry, and as a key figure among the five supermodels (Evangelista, Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, Claudia Schiffer and Cindy Crawford).

Evangelista was one of the most famous women in the world during the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s.

Unlike her colleagues, Evangelista chose not to diversify into other ventures outside of modelling.

She retired from her career in 1998 and made a comeback three years later, this time working only sporadically.

Her achievements as a model led to her being voted as “The Greatest Supermodel of All Time” by the viewers of the television show Fashion File in 2008.

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Who is Linda Evangelista ?

Linda Evangelista was born on May 10, 1965, in St. Catharines, to a working-class Catholic family.

She is the second of three children of Marisa and Tomaso “Tom” Evangelista (1940–2014), who were Italian emigrants from Pignataro Interamna.

Her father, who immigrated to Canada in 1957, worked for General Motors, and her mother was a bookkeeper.

Evangelista has an older brother, Jim, and a younger brother, Danny.

She attended a self-improvement course in a modelling school at the age of 12, where she was taught things such as poise and etiquette, and she was advised to attend a modelling course. She attended Denis Morris Catholic High School.

As a teenager, Evangelista started modelling locally in her hometown., she took part in the Miss Teen Niagara beauty pageant.

While she did not win the pageant, she caught the eye 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 stop modelling altogether.

She returned to Canada, and two years went by before she decided to try her hand at modelling again.

Linda Evangelista parents

Linda Evangelista was born in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada), to a working-class Catholic family.

She is the second of three children of Tomaso Evangelista and Marisa Evangelista, who were Italian emigrants from Pignataro Interamna.

Her father, who immigrated to Canada in 1957, worked for General Motors, and her mother was a bookkeeper.

Linda Evangelista Siblings

Born second of her parents three children, Linda Evangelista has two brothers called James and Dan.

Her brothers have stayed out of the spotlight and lives a private life.

Linda Evangelista children

Linda Evangelista is a mother of one son, Augustin James Evangelista. He was born on October 11, 2006.

When supermodel Evangelista had her son back in 2006, the father’s identity was kept a secret from the public until 2011, when it was revealed to be Kering CEO François Henri-Pinault.

Augustin James is now 17, and his dad runs the company behind Gucci, Balenciaga and Yves Saint Laurent.

While Evangelista spent most of her life on the runway and in front of the cameras, she has been raising her son in a manner opposite to her younger days and out of the public eye.

Augustin does not have public social media accounts and rarely appears on his mother’s Instagram page.

Augustin’s father, Pinault, has been married to actress Salma Hayek since 2009, making the actress his stepmother.

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