Linda Evangelista looks unrecognisable out in NYC

FORMER supermodel Linda Evangelista was spotted looking more normal than supermodel in NYC while trying to hail a cab.

SHE famously boasted of not getting out of bed for less than $10,000 a day, but Linda Evangelista proved she’s now as normal as the rest of us while trying to hail a cab in New York City.

The former supermodel was snapped looking in a casual black suit and glasses as she stepped out in the Big Apple with her son Augustin.

And it was the second time she has been seen in public in the past fortnight, a rarity for the woman who was once one of the world’s most photographed women.

Linda Evangelista, 50, is nearly unrecognisable as she is pictured walking around the West Village section of New York City. Picture: Elder Ordonez/INFphoto.com

On the catwalk in Australia in 2004. Picture: Patrick Riviere/Getty Images

Evangelista now. Picture: Elder Ordonez/INFphoto.com

Linda, who turns 51 next month, dressed down for the morning jaunt, her hair scraped back in a ponytail, her face framed by some grey cat-eye glasses.

Her hair is longer than her trademark crop of the ‘90s and she’s not as catwalk slim as she once was, but the way she held herself showed the supermodel within.

Back in the ‘90s Linda was one fifth of the world’s top supermodels – which included Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campbell and Christy Turlington.

She retired from full time modelling in 1998 and after three years of no work at all, she returned sporadically.

Evangelista with fellow supermodel Naomi Campbell and fashion designers Dolce & Gabbana. Picture: Giuseppe Cacace/Getty Images

She has since said she will never rule out having cosmetic surgery.

She said: “I probably will have surgery – not right now, but I am getting close. If it’s important to me I will have it, and announce that I’ve had it.”

In 2006 she gave birth to Augustin, whose father is billionaire Frenchman François-Henri Pinault, now married to actress Salma Hayek.

This article was reproduced with permission from The Sun.