Last August, Christina Applegate, one of the fashionable actresses of the eighties and nineties, revealed that she suffered from multiple sclerosis. “Hi friends. A few months ago I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. It has been a strange journey, “he wrote at the beginning of the tweet in which he made his ailment public. “It has been a tough road. But as we all know well, the path continues. Unless some jerk blocks it. “
Multiple sclerosis is a neurological disease that affects the central nervous system. The immune system attacks the protective covering of nerve fibers and causes communication problems between the brain and the rest of the body, according to the Mayo Clinic page. This condition can lead to difficulty walking, among other complications. It is currently incurable, but there are treatments to improve and speed recovery from attacks and control symptoms.
“As one of my friends who has multiple sclerosis said: ‘We wake up and take the right measures. And that’s what I do. So now I ask for privacy while I go through this thing. Thank you, ”he wrote in another tweet. It’s not the first time Applegate has faced a serious health setback.
In 2008, she was diagnosed with breast cancer, prompting her to undergo a double mastectomy. “I’ve had a mammogram a year since I turned 30,” Applegate told Elle magazine in 2014. “And my doctor finally said, ‘you know? I can not see it. It is very dense. We need to dig deeper. ‘ We did it and he had cancer, ”he added.
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“Oh, I remember three weeks after my mastectomy, I think I was on the Oprah show, and I was really cheering myself up at the time. I said: Hey, I’m going to have the most perky breasts in the infirmary! Or something like that, ”he told the magazine about the mastectomy. “And then you start living with those breasts and it is your reminder every day of what happened to you, unfortunately, and it is a body part that has changed dramatically and accepting that is sometimes difficult.”
As a result of that experience, the actress learned that there was a mutation in her DNA in the genes that indicate a greater susceptibility to breast and ovarian cancer than the general female population, known as BRCA. “Two weeks ago, my ovaries and fallopian tubes were removed. My cousin passed away from ovarian cancer in 2008. I could prevent that. This is how I have taken control of everything. It’s a relief. That’s one less thing on the table. Now, let’s hope I don’t get hit by a bus, ”he told Today in 2017.
Acting has been around for most of Applegate’s life. He was born in Hollywood; her mother, Nancy Priddy, was an actress and singer and her father, Robert, was a music producer. When she was still very young, her parents separated. Her first television appearance was at three months old, on “Days of Our Lives,” in her mother’s arms, according to People magazine. At the same age, she had her first paid acting job on a baby bottle commercial.
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His best roles
The role that would definitively reveal her to the general public came from the character of Kelly Bundy in “Married … with Children.” “I was a gloomy girl. I always thought that serious projects would be my thing. But the show really helped me stop being so serious all the time, ”she told the Los Angeles Times in 2016.
The actress combined her work on television with acting on the big screen. And among the titles in which he appeared are “Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead”, from 1990; 1996 “Mars Attacks”; “The Sweetest Thing”, 2002 and “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy”, 2004, among others.
In addition, she starred in a cameo on the famous series “Friends” that earned her an Emmy in 2003. In the NBC sitcom that was sweeping the 90s, Applegate played Amy Green, one of Rachel’s two spoiled sisters. The actress was nominated six more times for her work on the series “Samantha Who?” and most recently, for her portrayal of Jen Harding on the Netflix series “Dead To Me.”
In the late eighties she formed with Brad Pitt, eight years her senior, one of the couples of the moment. The pink pages of the time tell that she broke her relationship with him, supposedly for another boy, during an MTV event they had attended together. Currently, Applegate has been married since 2013 to musician Martyn LeNoble, with whom she has a daughter.
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