Linda Evangelista Shares Rare Photo With Look-Alike Son For His 16th Birthday: ‘My Heart, My Light’

“My heart. My light. 16,” Linda Evangelista captioned the Instagram Gallery she posted connected Oct. 11, the day of her son, Augustin “Augie” James. At the commencement of the gallery, Linda, 57, shared a behind-the-scenes photograph taken from the Fendi amusement astatine New York Fashion Week. In the pic, Linda sat wearing her floor-length Fendi gown, the Tiffany Blue hue making a stark opposition against her grey chair. To her broadside sat her teenage son, dressed successful an all-white outfit. Linda raised her manus to his cheek, and the 2 posed for the astir glamorous mother-son photograph ever.

The remainder of the Instagram Gallery comprised photos taken passim Augie’s life. There was a babe photograph of him aft a messy snack. There was a changeable of him dressed similar an older antheral erstwhile helium was conscionable a toddler successful New York City. There was adjacent a reflector selfie erstwhile Augie was a young lad and Linda was getting acceptable for the day.

“Happy birthday,” wrote Carla Bruni, 1 of the galore who celebrated Augie’s peculiar time successful the comments section. “Happy day to your handsome boy,” added Helena Christensen. “Happy Birthday, A,” wrote Shalom Harlow, portion Debi Mazar wrote, “Auguri!!!!! 16!” “Bless. Him. Beautiful similar Mommy,” added Kara Young. Linda’s cousin, Fear The Walking Dead actress Christine Evangelista, besides chimed in. “Happy Birthday Augie! Xoxoxo.”

Linda with her lad successful 2012 (Shutterstock)

Augie is Linda’s lone son, and she shares him with her ex, François-Henri Pinault. His begetter is simply a French businessman, whose company, PPR, has investments successful luxury brands similar Stella McCartney, Gucci, and Alexander McQueen. Because of such, Pinault is considered 1 of the wealthiest radical successful France.

Unfortunately, Pinault and Evangelista separated astir 8 months earlier Augie’s birth, and Linda had to instrumentality her ex to tribunal successful 2011 to petition $46,000 a period successful kid support. Pinault would wed histrion Salma Hayek, who treats her stepson arsenic her own.

Linda – who, successful July, settled her suit with CoolSculpting aft a botched country near her, arsenic she enactment it, “brutally disfigured” – has been making much nationalist appearances lately. The Fendi showcase was 1 of her astir noteworthy high-profile events, and it was wherever she reunited with her chap supermodel, Kate Moss. Linda shared a photograph of her with Kate, 48, backstage astatine the Fendi extravaganza, on with different shots of however the amusement was enactment together.