“I merely deprived myself of meals for years and years and years,” Applegate revealed. “It was f—ing torture.”
Christina Applegate is opening up about her earlier struggles with anorexia.
On the latest episode of her MeSsy podcast with co-host, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, the Ineffective to Me actress recounted affected by an east dysfunction whereas filming Married with Children.
“I merely deprived myself of meals for years and years and years,” Applegate outlined. “It was f—ing torture.”
When she was 15 and easily beginning her 10-year run on the sitcom, Applegate talked about her mom put her in Weight Watchers.
“She was on a regular basis aggressive,” she recalled. “If I purchased all the way in which all the way down to 110 [pounds], she’d be like… ‘How’d you do it?’ And the reason was, I had an consuming dysfunction. I’d eat 5 almonds in a day. And if I had six, I’d cry and I’d not want to go away the house. And that caught with me for years and years and years.”
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As her character Kelly Bundy on Married with Children, Applegate sometimes wore fast skirts and revealing tops, with the longtime actress recalling that she wished her “bones to be protruding” inside the risqué seems.
“So I didn’t eat,” she shared.
Her scenario purchased so harmful, that it began worrying the stable and crew,
“It was very scary to all people on set on account of they’ve been like, ‘Christina in no way eats.’ They talked to me about it,” Applegate talked about. She remembers being so small the reality is, that at one degree, the costume division needed to take in measurement 0 garments to make it match. “Nevertheless to me, I was large,” she added.
Whereas Applegate talked about she’s “in no way talked about” her consuming dysfunction in public, her struggles with meals and physique image return all the way in which through which to her childhood, when she recalled a neighbor boy calling her fat.
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It was until she was correctly into her 30s that she not felt managed by her consuming points.
Right now, Applegate, has completely totally different struggles alongside together with her weight. After being acknowledged with various sclerosis in 2021, she gained 45 kilos, due partly to the uncomfortable uncomfortable side effects of MS and the medication she takes for the sickness.
“The demon in my head is coming once more truly loud and it’s scaring me,” she knowledgeable Sigler, who moreover suffers from the sickness. “I wish to think about it so I don’t start falling into harmful habits of wounding myself.”
That “demon” was there in January, when Applegate she walked onto the Emmy stage the place she acquired a roaring standing ovation. Joking with the viewers, Applegate quipped, “Physique not by Ozempic.”
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On the podcast, Applegate talked about that joke was a safety mechanism. “I made jokes on the Emmys on account of … it was like I’d see what they’ve been pondering … and I was so humiliated. The demon is saying these things to me.”
Whereas her struggles with physique image are one factor she’s nonetheless at current battling, she wants her daughter, Sadie, to develop up with completely totally different messaging.
“I don’t want my daughter to see me not eat,” she talked about. “I’ve been truly clear about … making an attempt to not put myself down … I’ve harmful vainness factors and have my full life. I don’t want that for my little one.”
Should you occur to or any person is struggling with an consuming dysfunction, get help. Contact the Nationwide Consuming Issues Affiliation (NEDA) at 1-800-931-2237 or go to NationalEatingDisorders.org.
