On the newest episode of her MeSsy podcast with co-host, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, the Useless to Me actress recounted affected by an east dysfunction whereas filming Married with Kids.

“I simply disadvantaged myself of meals for years and years and years,” Applegate defined. “It was f—ing torture.”

When she was 15 and simply starting her 10-year run on the sitcom, Applegate stated her mother put her in Weight Watchers.

“She was all the time aggressive,” she recalled. “If I obtained all the way down to 110 [pounds], she’d be like… ‘How’d you do it?’ And the explanation was, I had an consuming dysfunction. I’d eat 5 almonds in a day. And if I had six, I’d cry and I would not need to depart the home. And that caught with me for years and years and years.”

As her character Kelly Bundy on Married with Kids, Applegate usually wore quick skirts and revealing tops, with the longtime actress recalling that she needed her “bones to be protruding” within the risqué appears.

“So I did not eat,” she shared.

Her situation obtained so dangerous, that it started worrying the forged and crew,

“It was very scary to everybody on set as a result of they have been like, ‘Christina by no means eats.’ They talked to me about it,” Applegate stated. She remembers being so small in actual fact, that at one level, the costume division had to soak up dimension 0 clothes to make it match. “However to me, I used to be monumental,” she added.

Whereas Applegate stated she’s “by no means mentioned” her consuming dysfunction in public, her struggles with meals and physique picture return all the best way to her childhood, when she recalled a neighbor boy calling her fats.

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

Nowadays, Applegate, has totally different struggles along with her weight. After being identified with a number of sclerosis in 2021, she gained 45 kilos, due partially to the unintended effects of MS and the medicine she takes for the illness.

“The demon in my head is coming again actually loud and it is scaring me,” she informed Sigler, who additionally suffers from the illness. “I want to pay attention to it so I do not begin falling into dangerous habits of wounding myself.”

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

On the podcast, Applegate stated that joke was a protection mechanism. “I made jokes on the Emmys as a result of … it was like I may see what they have been considering … and I used to be so humiliated. The demon is saying these items to me.”

Whereas her struggles with physique picture are one thing she’s nonetheless presently battling, she desires her daughter, Sadie, to develop up with totally different messaging.

“I do not need my daughter to see me not eat,” she stated. “I have been actually clear about … attempting to not put myself down … I’ve dangerous shallowness points and have my entire life. I do not need that for my child.”

Should you or somebody you understand is scuffling with an consuming dysfunction, get assist. Contact the Nationwide Consuming Problems Affiliation (NEDA) at 1-800-931-2237 or go to NationalEatingDisorders.org.