Linda Evangelista, the iconic supermodel from the '90s known for once saying that she doesn't "wake up for less than $10,000 a day" (via Oxford Reference) is now applying a variation of her infamous philosophy to dating — she isn't getting in bed with a man. Following a number of high-profile relationships and a six-year marriage, Evangelista is taking a hiatus from dating. In a 2023 conversation with The Times, she shared: "I don't want to sleep with anybody anymore. I don't want to hear somebody breathing."

However, despite her decision to abstain from dating, Evangelista's aversion to hearing somebody next to her is not rooted in a dislike for people. Rather, it is due to her struggle with misophonia, a condition that makes certain sounds, such as breathing and chewing, intolerable, as she revealed in her Times profile.

Additionally, the fashion icon has faced numerous challenges in recent years, which likely contributed to her need for a break. In a 2023 interview with The Wall Street Journal, Evangelista shared that she had breast cancer twice within a span of five years, undergoing a double mastectomy, multiple rounds of chemotherapy, and radiation. On top of it, Evangelista's plastic surgery controversy took an additional toll on her dating life. The model opened up on social media about a fat-freezing procedure, CoolSculpting, gone wrong, leaving her body "permanently deformed." According to her Times interview, she last dated before undergoing the treatment in 2015 and doesn't have any plans to get back out there any time soon.