On the most present episode of her MeSsy podcast with co-host, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, the Useless to Me actress recounted impacted by an east dysfunction though filming Married with Children.

“I simply just deprived myself of foods for years and decades and several years,” Applegate outlined. “It was f—ing torture.”

When she was 15 and basically setting up her 10-year run on the sitcom, Applegate pointed out her mother place her in Weight Watchers.

“She was all the time aggressive,” she recalled. “If I purchased all the way down to 110 [pounds], she’d be like… ‘How’d you do it?’ And the rationalization was, I experienced an consuming dysfunction. I might try to eat 5 almonds in a day. And if I had 6, I could cry and I would not want to go away the house. And that caught with me for several years and yrs and years.”

As her character Kelly Bundy on Married with Children, Applegate frequently wore speedy skirts and revealing tops, with the longtime actress recalling that she wished her “bones to be protruding” inside the risqué appears.

“So I did not consume,” she shared.

Her circumstance acquired so hazardous, that it began off stressing the sturdy and crew,

“It was extremely frightening to most people on set as a outcome of they have been like, ‘Christina by no means eats.’ They talked to me about it,” Applegate outlined. She remembers becoming so tiny the actual truth is, that at 1 level, the costume division knowledgeable to take in measurement garments to make it match. “However to me, I employed to be enormous,” she more.

Whereas Applegate pointed out she’s “by no usually means mentioned” her consuming dysfunction in neighborhood, her struggles with meals and physique photograph return all the way in which to her childhood, when she recalled a neighbor boy contacting her fat.

It was till she was adequately into her 30s that she now not felt managed by her consuming issues.

Now, Applegate, has completely distinctive struggles alongside with her excess weight. Immediately immediately after staying identified with a range of sclerosis in 2021, she gained 45 kilos, owing partly to the unpleasant facet consequences of MS and the medication she requires for the illness.

“The demon in my head is coming yet again basically loud and it is scaring me,” she informed Sigler, who also suffers from the sickness. “I would like to focus on it so I do not begin falling into harmful behavior of wounding myself.”

That “demon” was there in January, when Applegate she walked on to the Emmy stage the position she obtained a roaring standing ovation. Joking with the viewers, Applegate quipped, “Physique not by Ozempic.”

On the podcast, Applegate talked about that joke was a defense mechanism. “I created jokes on the Emmys as a end result of … it was like I may see what they have been pondering … and I employed to be so humiliated. The demon is saying these merchandise to me.”

While her struggles with physique photo are one particular unique challenge she’s even so at current battling, she requirements her daughter, Sadie, to obtain up with completely exceptional messaging.

“I do not require my daughter to see me not eat,” she outlined. “I have been truly apparent about … attempting to not put myself down … I’ve harmful vanity details and have my comprehensive lifestyle. I do not need to have that for my youngster.”

If you take spot to or any person is scuffling with an consuming dysfunction, get assist. Get in touch with the Nationwide Consuming Difficulties Affiliation (NEDA) at 1-800-931-2237 or go to NationalEatingDisorders.org.