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Christina Applegate Reveals 'Touching' Moment With Jimmy Kimmel as Actress Appeared on Late Night Show With Cane Following MS Diagnosis · Fresh Intelligence

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  [SPEAKER_00]: in her new memoir, who is the saddest.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Christina Applegate discusses her experience during a poignant talk show appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Three years after her multiple sclerosis diagnosis, the actress, 54, reveals her insecurities related to weight gain and reliance on a cane, and how Kimmel, 58, helped normalize her new reality for viewers.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Applegate recalls feeling touched when Kimmel acknowledged her situation.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: For people, it's a little bit shocking.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You come out with a cane, and people love you and are concerned about you.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She reflects, this was my now, my normal.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: After years of being a size 0, Applegate describes the drastic changes her body underwent post-diagnosis in 2021, attributing her weight gain to 15 hours of steroid infusion and other medications.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The effects became apparent while filming the last season of
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  [SPEAKER_00]: which coincided with her Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony in November 2022.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Applegate feared the public's reaction to her altered appearance, stating, when I was to receive my star, I didn't even look like Christina Applegate anymore.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Describing the day she received her star, she expresses humiliation over her appearance.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I felt humiliated.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I look sad and embarrassed.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Applegate contrast this experience with her past as a blonde bombshell, lamenting, once, people stared at my B.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But now, they were staring because I was fat, forever an unacceptable fate for women in Hollywood.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: After the ceremony, Applegate avoided mirrors for a year, but later adopted a clear liquid diet due to stomach issues.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Within seven months, all of it was gone, and I was down by 50 pounds or more, she concludes noting improvements in her health and physique.
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