By Mallory Mattingly
Actress Christina Applegate updated fans about her multiple sclerosis battle following recent reports that she’d been hospitalized.
“Thank you for the outpouring of love and well wishes. Health issues are a constant for me, but I’m a strong chick and I’m getting stronger and better every day. I’m taking a moment to focus on my health, but I’ll be back with more to say soon enough,” Applegate wrote in an April 20 Instagram post which included a snap of her coffee mug and her new book, You With The Sad Eyes.
In 2021, Applegate was diagnosed with MS, which is a “disease that causes breakdown of the protective covering of nerves. Multiple sclerosis can cause numbness, weakness, trouble walking, vision changes and other symptoms,” said neurologist Oliver Tobin, M.B., B.Ch., B.A.O., Ph.D. at the Mayo Clinic.
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On April 16, TMZ reported that Applegate had been hospitalized since late March. The actress’ representative decline to comment on if “she is in the hospital or what her medical treatments are,” per The Hollywood Reporter.
The rep added, “She’s had a long history of complicated medical conditions that she has been refreshingly open about, as evidenced in her memoir and on her podcast.”
Applegate released her memoir, You With The Sad Eyes, on March 3. It chronicles her early life and when she first emerged on the scene in Hollywood to her MS diagnosis.
“A Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis in 2021 confined her to a king-sized bed and the company of memories she’d rather forget: memories of the self-doubt and body dysmorphia that stalked her meteoric rise, of her mother’s fight against addiction and abuse after her father left, and of the tax life had taken on her body and mind that was suddenly coming due,” a synopsis reads.
“Now, at her most intimate and vulnerable, she unveils a story not even those closest to her fully know,” it continues. “She returns to the diaries she kept her whole life, finding the pain matched by joy, the losses mitigated by the extraordinary, and the weight of life lifted by her unrelenting belief that something greater lay ahead. No longer willing to lock herself away and with the perspective only our own mortality can bring, she knew it was imperative to tell it all.”
It instantly became a New York Times bestseller.
“I wrote this book with the hope that people would feel less alone. Thank you for reading, sharing, and making that a reality. I’m so grateful,” Applegate shared.
She gets personal, sharing a “snippet dedicated” to her childhood self before the book released.
“I want to go back and find that fourteen-year-old girl, the one who was determined to be modest to the point of self-effacement, the one struggling with her body image, the one fasting, drinking only water, the girl who had survived so much…I want to wrap her up so tightly and tell her everything will be okay,” Applegate wrote.
Though her health continues to struggle, it looks like Applegate will continue to persevere.
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