Christina Applegate<\/a> “cringes” over how the Married With Children audience lusted over her.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Christina Applegate reflects on Married With Children<\/p>\n
The 54-year-old star, who played Kelly Bundy in all 11 seasons of the classic sitcom, has opened up about her struggle with body dysmorphia and anorexia, which she says was worsened by her time playing the promiscuous and rebellious teen.<\/p>\n
In an extract from her memoir You With The Sad Eyes shared by Vulture, she wrote: “I dug myself into a hole with that character, though, because I had to be skinny.<\/p>\n
“I had a vision of the specific clothes I wanted her to wear, and to wear those clothes \u2014 clothes that would show if you ate something as tiny as a single grape \u2014 I had to lean even deeper into my eating disorder.\u201d<\/p>\n
She took drastic measures to control her weight, and ended up as little more than “bone, bone, bone”.<\/p>\n
\nShe added: “If I was going to eat something as horrendously huge as a bagel, say, I would scoop it out and maybe have half of it, or half of a half. That would be my food intake for an entire day.<\/p>\n
\n“Sometimes I\u2019d punish myself and wouldn\u2019t eat at all. I was a size 0, and the costume people on Married \u2026With Children would often have to take my clothes in. I was bone, bone, bone.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nChristina admitted she was “never satisfied”, while she started to wear “tighter” and “shorter” clothes as the show continued.<\/p>\n
\nShe recalled: \u201cBy season five, my God: I could walk into the living room, as I did in episode 13, The Godfather, in a leather fringed jacket over a short red shirt and there would be a five-second break in the scene while the crowd hollered lustily at me.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cI look at all this now and cringe. The show was indeed broad, and lewd, and it wouldn\u2019t have a shot in hell of being made these days.<\/p>\n
\n“That\u2019s a good thing: It\u2019s hard enough for young women to thrive in a world of appearances.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nChristina insisted she doesn’t blame the cast or crew for what occurred, and she doesn’t blame anyone for the ways the role impacted her mental health issues.<\/p>\n
\nShe said: \u201cSure, it was always part of the show that I would be an object for men to leer at, but I wanted to wear those Kelly Bundy dresses.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cAnd as hard as it may be to believe, I was genuinely innocent of my effect on people. I was just a kid. I knew my self\u2011denial of food and my generally damaging relationship with it were all trauma\u2011based.\u201d<\/p>\n
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