Aussie star Elle Macpherson reveals shock wedding dress decision: 'Angry and desperate'

Aussie model Elle Macpherson gave her first Australian interview about her new book today on Fitzy, Wippa & Kate and didn't hold anything back in the candid chat. The supermodel's new book, aptly titled Elle, is a memoir about her fashion career and life as a model as well as an insight into her personal achievements and struggles.

From her secret breast cancer diagnosis, celebrating 21 years of sobriety, and revealing that she burned her wedding dress in a fit of anger, nothing was off the cards for Elle during her time on the radio show as she promotes her memoir.

Elle Macpherson on burning her wedding dress: 'Traumatic and dramatic'

The 60-year-old Aussie icon revealed she had burned her wedding dress designed by Azzedine Alaia, saying it nearly backfired on her (no pun intended) when a museum asked for it to be displayed in the Azzedine museum.

"It was an Azzedine Alaïa dress, which was made for me and by one of the greatest couturiers of the world. The embarrassing thing was, many years later, the Azzedine museum asked me for the dress...but I couldn't tell them it was stuck to the bar on the brownstone that I was living on Ninth Street New York City, like only nylon would stick to a bar!" Elle said.

When asked if the fire brigade was called when she was burning it, Elle said things were a little different back in the '90s.

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"Well they didn't have the smoke alarms like they do now...the fire hazards were different in the 80s and 90s," she said. "I think it was just a wonderful indication of how frustrated and angry and desperate I felt and it is so, you know, in your face to freaking burn your wedding dress but I think the remarkable thing is, I got through it, and I thrived."

Elle called the end of her three-year marriage and dress burning a 'turning point'.

"It was this turning point in my life... even though at the moment it felt very traumatic and dramatic, it actually turned out to be an extraordinary turning point!"

Well, as the old wedding saying goes: something borrowed, something new, something burned, something blue.

Elle gives cancer update

Elle revealed in her memoir she had breast cancer, but has now been in clinical remission for seven years. When asked about her 'battle' with cancer, Elle said it was a story of 'rebirth' for her.

"It wasn't really a battle. I mean, the battle was coming to terms with everybody else's fear, because, you know, cancer is a subject that we're so many people are afraid of...so my recovery from breast cancer, and I'm happy to say that I'm seven years in clinical remission, as they would say," she said.

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"You know, the hardest part was coming to the decision, first of all, the diagnosis, but the next part was, well, what do I do about it? It was such a magnificent story of rebirth for me."

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