“That demon in my head is coming back really loud, and it’s scaring me.
It hasn’t been there for a long time.
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She added: “They’re still always there.
Christina Applegate for ‘Married With Children’.Courtesy Everett Collection
I don’t look in mirrors.
That’s how I feel now.
That is today, this isn’t 20-something-year-old Christina.
Christina Applegate with Anthony Anderson at the 75th Emmy Awards.VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images
That is the girl who gained 45 pounds whenshe got [MS].”
She said her mother was also obsessed with her own weight, and the fixation passed on to Applegate.
“I finally had an eating disorder.
That stuck with me for years,” she said.
So I didn’t eat.
“I just deprived myself of food for years and years and years.
It was f—ing torture.
She literally grabbed me and said, ‘Stop it.
You sound insane.’
But, to me, I was enormous,” she remembered.
“They were taking in zeros on my show,Jesse, the second season.
Taking in zeros because I’d gotten so thin.”
“It scared the s— out of me.
I tried so hard to bring in calories,” she said.
“I’d get a smoothie, but I could only drink a third of it.
I’d have to throw it out.
I’d have to put sugar on my salty food and salt on my sugary food.
I’d destroy my food so I wouldn’t eat it.”
In January 2023, shespoke out against a womanwho criticized her appearance on a red carpet.
“Of course I told her that it wasn’t nice.
“What is wrong with people?
By the way, I laughed.”
Listen to Applegate and Sigler discuss their history with eating disorders in the podcast episode above.
If you or someone you know is struggling with an eating disorder, hey go toNationalEatingDisorders.org.
