“I would cry and I wouldn’t want to leave the house.”
This post contains discussion of eating disorders and body image struggles.
At this point, you knowChristina Applegatefrom tons of things.
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“It was fucking torture.”
“And the reason was, I had an eating disorder.”
“I would eat five almonds in a day.
And if I had six, I would cry and I wouldn’t want to leave the house.
And that stuck with me for years and years and years.”
“It was very scary to everyone on set because they were like, ‘Christina never eats.’
They talked to me about it.”
“But to me, I was enormous,” she recalled.
“The demon is saying these things to me.”
“I don’t want my daughter to see me not eat,” she said.
I don’t want that for my kid."
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