Christina Applegate Reveals ‘Total Emotional Collapse’ After Double Mastectomy
Oct. 22 2012, Published 11:30 a.m. ET
By Breaking Celebrity News Staff
Christina Applegate may have bounced back from breast cancer, but it wasn’t easy!
The Up All Night star, who underwent a double mastectomy in 2008 after being diagnosed with the same disease her mother survived, opens up about her painful struggle to come to terms with losing both of her breasts in the November 2012 issue of More magazine, and Breaking Celebrity News has the details.
"I miss my exquisite breasts sometimes,” she reveals, in reference to a line about her natural mammary glands in the movie Anchorman.
The 40-year-old explains how she was denied the time to grieve, as the media learned about her surgery immediately following the operation.
“The good thing is that we got the information out, but talking about the facts of the disease, I didn’t have to see what was going on with me. I think when it slowed down, all that came crashing down,” she says.
With the help of her friends and family and a spiritual advisor, she overcame what she calls a “total emotional collapse.”