Linda Lusardi, 61, says she’s ‘feeling so much better’ in fun Easter selfie after COVID-19 battle

Linda Lusardi has revealed she’s ‘feeling so much better’ after surviving her battle with COVID-19.

The model, 61, took to Instagram on Saturday to share a fun selfie complete with a bunny ears and whiskers filter as she thanked fans for their support and messages during her ordeal.

The star looked in good spirits as she smiled for the camera and donned what appeared to be a halterneck swimsuit as she continued to recover from her illness.

Her brunette tresses were swept to the side in a loose ponytail for the picture, with Linda looking radiant as she chilled in the sunshine. 

Captioning the fun snap, Linda was quick to assure her followers that she was on the mend as she wished everyone a Happy Easter.

She penned: ‘Have a lovely Easter. Say Home, Stay Safe. Thanks for all you kind wishes and messages. I am feeling so much better.’

The post was soon flooded with several comments of well wishes and love from her supporters. 

Her Easter snap comes just days after she revealed she had a ‘traumatic’ final goodbye with her husband Sam Kane when she took a turn for the worse during her battle with coronavirus.

Speaking about the experience during an interview with Sky News on Thursday, she reflected on the ‘dark moment’ she thought she may not survive the virus.

In an emotional retelling of the event, the TV personality explained: ‘There were some very dark moments where I didn’t think I was going to make it. All my vital signs were going down badly.

‘I said to one of the young doctors, ‘”Am I going to pull through this?”. He said, “You’re 61, we don’t know what we’re dealing with here.”

‘So I texted Sam, who was in another part of the hospital and said, “I don’t know if I’m going to make it, can you come up.”

Saying that a nurse ‘took pity’ on them by giving Sam a gown and mask and allowing him to visit her, she went on: ‘He gave me a pep talk about staying positive and “get back for the kids, you can’t leave us”.

‘It was very traumatic. Then he was taken out and the next day he went home.’

On Wednesday, Linda broke down in tears as she recalled her ‘horrendous’ battle with coronavirus during an appearance on Good Morning Britain.

Linda admitted she thought she was going to die of the deadly disease when she was rushed to hospital and placed on oxygen in her first TV interview since recovering from the virus.

Linda went onto praise NHS staff for their incredible care and ‘giving her her life back’ after she and husband Sam Kane tested positive for coronavirus.

Linda told Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid she first started to display symptoms of COVID-19 when her husband Sam contracted the virus.

She explained: ‘He was very very ill and I was looking after him, but I was sleeping in bed with him because we didn’t realise what he had actually got, and then I contracted it, and then he felt he was getting better and started looking after me.’

Adding that her husband’s condition suddenly deteriorated, Linda explained they were both suffering from vomiting and diarrhoea, but after phoning 111 were simply told to self-isolate.

But when she started to suffering for breathlessness and chest pains, her son Jack advised they phone an ambulance.

She continued: ‘Two lady ambulance drivers came did some tests and I’d got zero oxygen in my blood and tested Sam and said his was really bad as well, my poor son watched as we were marched out of the door with paramedics.’

Linda went onto explain that since being discharged from hospital she’s gone from strength to strength with the support of her husband and two children.

‘Jack had had a mild affect of it, and he and Sam drove to the hospital, when I was being wheeled towards him I just broke down, and I sat in the garden listening to the bird and held Jack and said I’m so glad I’m still here,’ she said.

Linda went onto urge viewers to follow social distancing guidelines ahead of the Easter Weekend, warning people could be spreading the coronavirus without even knowing.

She said: ‘If you’re socialising with people, you might get the germs mildly yourself, but you might give them to your mother, your sister, do you want them to go through that?’

Continuing to praise the National Health Service, she continued: ‘I can’t thank you enough for your care and attention, I know how scared you are, you are the front line and without you more people would be dying, I just thank you for giving me my life back.

‘I wasn’t getting preferential treatment, they had no idea who I was, the care they gave me was the care they would’ve given any 61-year-old.’