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Christina Applegate Opens Up About Eating Disorder

The actor says her body image struggles intensified after landing her “Married... With Children” role: “It was very scary to everyone on set.”

On Monday’s episode of her “MeSsy” podcast, Applegate recalls how her struggles with body image began in childhood while in conversation with fellow actor Jamie-Lynn Sigler. Applegate, however, continued to grapple with her eating disorder while working on her next major project, NBC’s “ Jesse.” During rehearsals for that series’ second and final season, which aired in 2000, the actor said some of her size zero costumes had to be taken in because she’d become so thin. Though Applegate learned to accept her body over the years, she acknowledged that the “demon in my head” has been “coming back really loud” following her diagnosis with multiple sclerosis, after which she gained about 45 pounds.

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