Christina Applegate has “never discussed” her anorexia feeding on problem till now. The “Dead to Me” actress and Jamie-Lynn Sigler opened up about struggling from feeding on diseases on the latest episode of their “MeSsy” podcast.
“It was f–king torture,” Applegate, 52, mentioned. “I just deprived myself of foods for several years and several years and years.”
Applegate unveiled that her mom set her on Fat Watchers when she was 15, which was the exact year “Married … with Children” debuted in 1987. Her struggles with human body picture started years before when she recalled a neighbor boy calling her unwanted fat.
“She was always competitive,” recalled Applegate, 52, of her mom. “If I acquired down to 110 [pounds], she’d be like… ‘How’d you do it?’ And the cause was, I had an feeding on problem.”
Applegate “would consume five almonds in a day” at the time.
“And if I had six, I would cry and I wouldn’t want to go away the property,” she spelled out. “And that trapped with me for decades and decades and years.”
The “Don’t Explain to Mom the Babysitter’s Dead” actress starred on the sitcom along with Ed O’Neill, Katey Sagal and David Faustino. The series ran for 11 seasons and aired a lot more than 260 episodes.
Applegate performed Al (O’Neill) and Peggy Bundy’s (Sagal) daughter Kelly, who typically gained a loud applause from the viewers when she walked out on set. Kelly usually donned crop tops and limited skirts, and the costume section at 1 point had to get in size garments to make absolutely sure it match her properly.
“I preferred my bones to be sticking out, so I did not consume,” she discovered.
Her compact frame was “very scary to everyone” behind the digital camera, Applegate went on.
“They had been like, ‘Christina hardly ever eats.’ They talked to me about it,” she said on her podcast. “But to me, I was monumental.”
The “Sopranos” alum, 42, meanwhile, suffered from an eating dysfunction as a teen and it acquired worse when she observed herself in the pilot of the famed HBO present.
“I was the fullest I experienced been at any time. I didn’t search like any other younger girl on any other exhibit that I’d viewed,” she mentioned. “There was a year concerning the pilot and the initial episode and throughout that time, I experienced the taking in ailment.”
When she returned a yr afterwards to movie the 1st period, she statements she was almost fired.
“Because of how thin I was,” she informed Applegate. “They have been like, ‘whoa, no, no, no, no, no!’ The exhibit was so supportive and loving and they just required me balanced.” Sigler at her smallest was 80 pounds.
“Every notebook, if you had a notebook from my sophomore and junior yr of large university has like very little quantities on the corner of it, just calculating foodstuff and energy,” she recalled.
Applegate and Sigler grew close prior to debuting their podcast in March. The stars bonded about their respective battles with MS and normally speak about their disorders on-air.
