Many famous people have ups and downs, and Christina Applegate has definitely been through them. Actually, her health has gotten so bad in the last few years that she says she’s afraid to take any more baths.
It’s not the first time she’s had health issues. After being told she had multiple sclerosis, she had to quit acting and has been depending on her husband and daughter for support ever since.
Most likely, you remember Christina Applegate from when she was famous in the 1980s. There was always something interesting about her on screen, whether she was in Married with Children or another movie.
Everything changed, though, when she had a double mastectomy in 2008. There was some evidence that she might have cancer, so she did it partly as a precaution.
She also had surgery to remove her ovaries and fallopian tubes in 2007. That was followed by a health problem three years later, which she told her friends about. Applegate, who was 49 years old at the time, said she had multiple sclerosis in August 2021.
Suddenly, she found it hard to go to work every day, but she kept doing her job until the end of the year. She had to get help with her wheelchair and use a cane to keep her balance and support herself.
She eventually chose to stop acting and focus on her health. She said she very likely wouldn’t work on camera again, but she was thankful for the chance to work with some great people.
Christine Applegate said in 2023 that she was going to earn some money by doing video work. She doesn’t want to go back to the set because she has a disease that will get worse over time.
She has trouble moving around now, and she can’t go anywhere without her wheelchair or cane. It’s been a bad year for her since she was told she has multiple sclerosis, but some days are better than others.
She had to change other things about her life too, like not taking showers because she would slip and fall. Because she is afraid, she doesn’t move around as much and spends most of the day in bed watching TV.
Things need to be brought downstairs that she puts at the top of the stairs but can’t do herself. In her home, they call it “purgatory.”
The ex-actress has trouble with even easy things like putting on a bra. She is glad that Kim Kardashian’s clothing line made clothes that can be worn by people who have trouble moving around.
When this happens, you start to think about your life and often feel like you didn’t value the little things.
“None of us knew I was going to get sick, gain 40 pounds from the medicine, and be unable to move,” she said. It was really hard for me to keep my own feelings from getting in the way of what Jen was feeling. It was really hard to say a lot of the words.
