Christina Applegate admitted that she suffered from an eating disorder while filming the TV series “Married with Children”, when she was a teenager. The actress began filming the sitcom, which ran for 10 seasons, at the age of 15.

“I just deprived myself of food for years”Christina Applegate revealed on the new episode of “MeSsy,” the podcast she shares with Jamie-Lynn Sigler. “It was torture”, she said. At the age of 15, Applegate’s mother put her on Weight Watchers.

“She was always competitive”said the actress, now 52 years old. “I was eating five almonds a day. And if I ate six, I would cry and not want to leave the house. And that stayed with me for many years”he pointed out.

When she played Kelly Bundy on the show, she said, the actress wanted to look thin in the short skirts and revealing outfits she chose for her character. “I wanted my bones to show, so I didn’t eat,” revealed.

Christina Applegate revealed that she is still fighting an internal battle with her body image after gaining a lot of weight after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. To be exact, 45 kilos, from the side effects of the disease and the drugs he was taking and continues to take to this day.

“That demon in my head, it’s coming back really strong. And it scares me,” write down. “He wasn’t there for long. I mean, it’s always a little bit up there with anorexia and it just tortures me. And then the body dysmorphia and all that stuff. They are still always there. I don’t look in mirrors,” Applegate continued. “That’s obviously something that people don’t know. I’ve written on all my bathroom mirrors so I don’t look in them because I’ll cry”he added.