Christina Applegate had a diet disorder while she was “married … with children”

Christina Applegate He said this week that the pressure pressures as beautiful and sexy to “married … with children” led to developing a disorder of nutrition.

“Playing that character did things to me in my psyche that were not a bueno-after-anorexia,” the 53-year-old explained at her “messy” Podcast while talking to a guest and former star “married to children” Stars ” Katey Sagal.

“Yes, a pretty bad eating disorder started when I was doing that show that lasted for a very long time,” she said.

Applegate said she never told anyone about the disorder at the time and that she was “very, very private about that.”

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“I would hide myself in the bathrooms to eat, because I was so ashamed to eat myself to hide on the plane, like when we went to London,” she said. “I remember hiding there to eat like one shrimp, because I was so afraid if anyone saw me eating to think that I would try fat or something like that. I don’t know. I was in such a dark space.”

Sagal, who played Applegate’s mother on the screen in the show, which lasted from 1987 to 1997, told her that “she didn’t know it all.”

Applegate replied, “Yes, I kept everything close to my chest. There didn’t happen a lot of things in the wings of my life that you didn’t know.”

Sagal agreed that Applegate was “very careful” in the show because she was a “sexual symbol”.

Being a sex symbol at 17 “F —” Someone’s head, Sagal said, adding that “it was a very misogynistic show.”

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But she always felt fine, creating a “mizoginist” joke in the show, because she never felt that her opinion, Sagal continued, explaining that she only played her character, Peggy Bundy.

“So, I was able to keep that separation, but Chrissy was very careful and tried to stick in the box,” Sagal continued. “… so they put her in firmer skirts and shorter skirts, so there was a lot.”

Applegate admitted that the procative choices of the wardrobe were actually her idea.

Her character Kelly Bundy was originally written as a “tough” bicycle girl “, but said she was inspired by a girl interviewed for a 1981 documentary.” The fall of Western civilization: Part II: Metal Years, “who said to the survey that she wanted to continue her” modeling and her actress. ”

“And she had this big F ——– hair and a white dress from Likra, and I went to the wardrobe department and I said,” We are changing this, we have to represent Zeitgeist of this rock, a slut video of the viksen things that happens in the world, where men and women look the same. So, from there she came. “

But she quickly realized that she might have “shot in her leg” suggesting a sexy version of the character, which would have to stay thin.

In an interview 2023. Vanity fairApplegate talked about how many people were focused on her appearance, not her talent on the sitcom.

“I’ve never been to the reception end of any kind of flattery before [‘Married … with Children’]Since I wore bells around my ankles and moccasins and wore a patch, “she told the magazine.” I was a gross little hippie baby. Looking back at that, it’s quite rough. Yes, that part somehow sucked. The men had posters of this small 17-year-old, and I kept pearls. Like, who let me do it? I didn’t even know what a connotation was. ”

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She first opened up about her anorexia on her Podcast last May.

“I’ve just been deprived of my food for years and years and years. It was torture,” she said. “I wanted my bones to fall out, so I didn’t eat.”

And while she never talked about it at the time, she said people on the set noticed.

“It was very scary to everyone on the set because they were like, ‘Christina never eats. “And no,” she admitted. “They talked to me about it.”

The costume department changed her clothing to be smaller than zero size, Applegate states. “But for me I was huge.”

In this week’s episode of Podcasta, Sagal spoke about how her character was also put in outfits, which she admitted was her idea.

When it was an audition for the first time, Sagal explained that Peggy was written as “casual”, but she decided not to portray her that way, so she “came to the audition cut, you know, as if I was wearing a narrow dress, and I was a little like a cat’s eye glasses, and I had my hair.” The producers liked a sexy look and “then you stuck in that clothes.”

The couple also agreed that over the years the writers “rejected” both of their characters. “We didn’t start stupid,” Sagal said.

“Kelly couldn’t open the door once,” Applegate laughed. “I was like,” Are we really going here? That happened now? “Like, can’t she open the door?

Somewhere else on Podcasta, Sagal remembered Applegate as a teenager in the show, saying she would like to have a normal job after growing up as a children’s actress, to which the sagal was hard to do, because she tried so hard to become an actress.

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“I just wanted to be normal, man,” Applegate said, adding that she did not have typical high school experiences.

“I was at school with Dave,” she said, referring to her younger brother on the screen, David Faustina.

Touching the troubles of children’s stars, Sagal said, “Christina is one of the few who has gone through.”

“I mean, I think it’s really hard, the road for children is stars like, man. And Christina, you just made a transition, which is not the experience of many people,” she said.

Applegate attributed sagal and Ed o’neillwho played her screen father, helping her in that transition.

Calling a “Black Sheep” sitcom at the time, women agreed that none of the actors treated “special” by any executive or anyone else.

“There was no room for all those other bulls — to bother, like ego and thinking that you are better than everyone else, and I think it happens to these children, that they are better treated,” Applegate thought.

She remembered that she once was on a very high fever, asking one of the stage manager if she could get her orange juice, and the stage leader said, “You have legs.”

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“And I’ll never forget that while I live,” she said, “and I was like” Oh yes, you can do it for yourself. ”