[Warning: Potentially Triggering Content] Christina Applegate is opening up about a crippling eating disorder she struggled with early in her career.
On Tuesday’s episode of her MeSsy podcast, the Anchorman star reflected on becoming aware of her weight and food intake at a very young age when a neighbor boy called her fat.
By the time she turned 15, she’d landed her role as Kelly Bundy on Married with Children, and her mom put her on Weight Watchers: Shockingly, she admitted that some days she would just eat “five almonds.” “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.” Related: Kelly Clarkson FINALLY Admits To Using Weight Loss Drug To Slim Down She described depriving herself of food as “f**king torture.” But while suffering from anorexia, falsely believed she looked “enormous.” She explained: She even noted that she was SO tiny at one point that the costumer department had to take in a size zero: So, so sad.
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