Elle Macpherson, a top model, has walked for Versace, Dior, Yves Saint Laurent, Valentino, Prada. We trace the life and success of this fashion icon and her tumultuous story between love, fame and illness.
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The beginning of success
Elle Macpherson, pseudonym of Eleanor Nancy Gow, is of Australian origin. Born in the Upper North Shore of Sydney, she is the eldest of four children. Beauty has always been one of her defining traits and during her adolescence, she began to be noticed by the first fashion agencies and started with Click Model Management. A successful signing, she appeared on the covers of Elle then Vogue, Cosmopolitan, GQ and Vanity Fair until arriving at “The big Elle”, the cover dedicated to her by Time in 1986.
Love
In 1986, she married photographer Gilles Bensimon, a marriage that lasted three years. After this relationship, Macpherson began a new relationship with Frenchman Arpad Busson with whom she had two children. Their love story ended and the supermodel met building contractor Jeffrey Soffer whom she married in 2013. Five years later, after a second divorce, she dated Andrew Wakefield, a British doctor who was struck off for supporting the correlation between vaccines and autism.
The disease
Over the years, her success has never faded and she remains a style model to this day. “The body” was her nickname, but in recent years, it is precisely her body that has been failing her. In 2017, at the beginning of her relationship with Wakefield, she discovered a tumor and revealed it to Elle magazine. She underwent a lumpectomy, a partial removal of the breast tissue affected by cancer. Subsequently, she was diagnosed with carcinoma, due to cancer cells formed in the ducts. She claims not to have followed the advice of doctors and not to have accepted treatments based on chemotherapy. “You have to trust nature,” she said.
Holistic medicine
Soon after, Macpherson rented a house in Arizona where she devoted herself to holistic treatment of her cancer under the guidance of her primary care physician, a naturopath, holistic dentist, osteopath, chiropractor and two therapists. She said she spent her days “focusing and dedicating every minute to healing myself.”
The trauma
Finding out she had a tumor wasn’t traumatic for the supermodel: “It was a shock, it was unexpected, it was disconcerting, it was discouraging in many ways and it really gave me the opportunity to dig deep into my inner self to find a solution that works for me.”
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