Christina Applegate revealed that she has only had 1 plastic surgery process done while opening up astir nan logic she went nether nan knife.
“At 27 years old, I was connected a show and 1 of nan producers, very celebrated group who did a very celebrated show arsenic well, said, ‘Hey, we’re having problem lighting nether your eyes. Your bags nether your eyes are truthful big,'” Christina, 52, said during nan Wednesday, July 30, section of her “MeSsy” podcast, noting that her nether eyes are a hereditary trait. “And he goes, ‘I propose you get them removed.’ And you cognize what? I did.”
She went connected to callback a much caller acquisition that took spot earlier she was diagnosed pinch aggregate sclerosis successful 2021. Christina explained that a head told her a workplace paid $100,000 to edit her look successful an unnamed movie.
“He goes, ‘Yeah, nan workplace was really upset,'” she recalled of her speech pinch nan director. “He goes, ‘Yeah, I mean I told them it’s for illustration she’s not Kelly Bundy anymore and, you know, truthful she looks older’ and they virtually erased my face.”
Christina’s cohost, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, past chimed successful to stock than an editor antecedently told her nan measurement she walked did not “look right” amid her ain conflict pinch MS.
“Then they request to f–king movie america differently,” Christina replied. “That’s nan thing.”
The Dead to Me character continued nan susceptible conversation by admitting she’s frightened to return to acting amid her chronic illness. “We talk a batch astir fearfulness of going backmost to activity and, you know, and I’m having, like, this thought of, like, I mightiness want to,” she said. “And now I’m like, ‘Oh, s–t, we’re being truthful honorable astir this. Are they gonna deliberation that I’m not gonna beryllium capable to do it?’ Well, I filmed an full play of tv pinch this illness and, you know, was very successful pinch it.”
Christina has been unfastened astir nan impacts her profession has had connected her assemblage image, while she antecedently discussed struggles pinch anorexia during a May section of her podcast. The California autochthonal explained that she first started dealing pinch her eating disorder arsenic a teen erstwhile she starred connected Married … With Children.
“I conscionable deprived myself of nutrient for years and years and years,” she revealed, adding that her mother enrolled her successful nan Weight Watchers programme erstwhile she was 15. However, Christina shared that she first started struggling pinch her assemblage image years earlier aft a boy successful her vicinity called her “fat.”
Christina said that her mom was “always competitive,” recalling, “If I sewage down to 110 [pounds], she’d beryllium like… ‘How’d you do it?’ And nan logic was, I had an eating disorder.”
She past revealed that her anorexia became truthful bad that she “would eat 5 almonds successful a day.” Christina continued, “And if I had six, I would cry, and I wouldn’t want to time off nan house. And that stuck pinch maine for years and years and years.”