Christina Applegate has opened up about her previous battle with an eating disorder, shedding light on the years she spent depriving herself of food.
Speaking at her podcast, MeSsy, which she co-hosts with actor Jamie-Lynn Sigler, the Dead To Me star revealed that her self-described “body dysmorphia” began when she was a teenager but is “always there.”
Reminiscing about her mother’s memories she shared that her mother put her in Weight Watchers when she was 15.
Applegate said “She was always competitive,” adding, “If I got down to 110 [pounds]… she’d be like, ‘Oh! I’m so mad! How’d you do it? How’d you get down to 110?’ And the reason why was because I had an eating disorder.”
“That stuck with me for years and years and years,” she said.
Applegate also revealed, “I wanted my bones to be sticking out,” adding, “It was just a way of life. If I did eat something, I’d punish myself. I was never bulimic or anything like that, I just deprived myself of food for years and years and years. It was torture.”
She continued that “it was very scary to everyone on set” and “they talked to me about it.”
The Married With Children star admitted that she realized she had a problem in her 30s, “I was sitting on the toilet and I saw only bones and it scared the shit out of me,” after that, she began eating normally and “figured it out.”
