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After her recent public battle with Breast Cancer, Christina Applegate is back with a new comedy, The Rocker.
ON THE TOUGH TIMES
I was so mad and I just remember I was just shaking [upon hearing the diagnosis]. Sometimes I cry. Sometimes I scream. It's all part of healing... It's okay to cry, it's okay to fall on the ground and just scream if you want to... I had a prophylactic double mastectomy. I didn't want to go back to the doctors every four months for testing and squishing and everything.
I just wanted to kind of be rid of this whole thing for me.
ON HER MOTHER'S SIMILAR BATTLE
My mom is a breast cancer survivor. The first time she was diagnosed I was a very young girl - probably seven. I'm not sure it really fully hit me at the time, but she had to undergo surgery and have a mastectomy and reconstructive surgery. It was devastating for my mother to lose one of her breasts and have to go through all that. It is a very personal cancer for the women it affects. This is about women's womanhood. It's one of the aspects of our femininity.
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HER PLANS TO HAVE RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY
I'm going to have cute boobs until I'm 90 [laughs]. I'm going to have the best boobs in the nursing home.
HER DREAMS
My dream is to have a house on the beach, even just a little shack somewhere so I can wake up, have coffee, look at dolphins, be quiet and breathe the air.
ON AGEING IN HOLLYWOOD
I wish I didn't have to worry about how fit I look or any of those things, because once you hit a certain age as an actor, you go into a different bracket of roles. It's unfortunate, but that's just the way the business is. I think it causes a lot of disease, like anorexia, in young women, or they get too much Botox. I wouldn't want to get plastic surgery because I think it alters who you really are. You start to look like someone else, and that frightens me. But I don't know how I'll feel at 55.
HER COMEDIC ROLES
I've been obsessed with Lucile Ball pretty much my whole life, so that was such a great inspiration to me as an actor.
ON HER CAREER
Married. . . with Children was actually my third series... I'd rather have a long career rather than have a good two-year career. I'd rather do that than be the person that everyone goes, "Jesus Christ if I see them on another cover of a magazine I'm going to vomit. If I see them on E one more time I'm going to be sick." I think that I would rather be who I am where you can always reinvent yourself and rediscover yourself rather than be that, although monetarily it is much better to be on the A list. [Laughs].
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ON THE TOUGH TIMES
I was so mad and I just remember I was just shaking [upon hearing the diagnosis]. Sometimes I cry. Sometimes I scream. It's all part of healing... It's okay to cry, it's okay to fall on the ground and just scream if you want to... I had a prophylactic double mastectomy. I didn't want to go back to the doctors every four months for testing and squishing and everything.
I just wanted to kind of be rid of this whole thing for me.
ON HER MOTHER'S SIMILAR BATTLE
My mom is a breast cancer survivor. The first time she was diagnosed I was a very young girl - probably seven. I'm not sure it really fully hit me at the time, but she had to undergo surgery and have a mastectomy and reconstructive surgery. It was devastating for my mother to lose one of her breasts and have to go through all that. It is a very personal cancer for the women it affects. This is about women's womanhood. It's one of the aspects of our femininity.
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HER PLANS TO HAVE RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY
I'm going to have cute boobs until I'm 90 [laughs]. I'm going to have the best boobs in the nursing home.
HER DREAMS
My dream is to have a house on the beach, even just a little shack somewhere so I can wake up, have coffee, look at dolphins, be quiet and breathe the air.
ON AGEING IN HOLLYWOOD
I wish I didn't have to worry about how fit I look or any of those things, because once you hit a certain age as an actor, you go into a different bracket of roles. It's unfortunate, but that's just the way the business is. I think it causes a lot of disease, like anorexia, in young women, or they get too much Botox. I wouldn't want to get plastic surgery because I think it alters who you really are. You start to look like someone else, and that frightens me. But I don't know how I'll feel at 55.
HER COMEDIC ROLES
I've been obsessed with Lucile Ball pretty much my whole life, so that was such a great inspiration to me as an actor.
ON HER CAREER
Married. . . with Children was actually my third series... I'd rather have a long career rather than have a good two-year career. I'd rather do that than be the person that everyone goes, "Jesus Christ if I see them on another cover of a magazine I'm going to vomit. If I see them on E one more time I'm going to be sick." I think that I would rather be who I am where you can always reinvent yourself and rediscover yourself rather than be that, although monetarily it is much better to be on the A list. [Laughs].
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