Chop & Change

Resurfacing after the end of her fairytale marriage, model and skincare mogul Lindy Klim reintroduces herself as Lindy Rama — blonder, bolder and ready to celebrate her new fiancé and fledgling fashion label. 

- Rachelle Unreich

TO SAY LINDY KLIM has wanted to make changes in her life is akin to saying Donald Trump would like to make suggestions about how his country is run. There is nothing subtle going on here. For Lindy, the fact that she looks almost unrecognisable isn’t even the most dramatic thing that’s happened to her in the past 15 months. Little over a year ago, she was still one half of the Lindy-Michael Klim duo, running skincare line Milk & Co with her Olympian husband. In a short time, all that has changed. Her dark, straight locks have been switched to a blonde cut. Not only has her decade-long marriage come to an end, but both she and Michael have repartnered, and she is newly engaged to an Englishman, Adam Ellis. As for work? She’s reinventing that, too, having stepped away from Milk & Co as she launches a new fashion label, Rama, this year.

“I feel like it’s a new Lindy Rama,” is the first thing she says, using her maiden name. “It’s time to do something drastic and have a new lease on life and a new beginning.” The hair colour — “I’m still getting used to it!” — is the least of it. Her buoyant tone belies the struggle of the past year, during which she followed a self-imposed moratorium on most social events and interviews. “I chose to take a year out, to just regroup and be with my family in Bali, and with Adam. I just needed to make sure I was taking care of my family and healing myself — because if anybody got me at a bad time, anything could have come up. I could have ended up in tears on the red carpet with somebody asking me a question.”