In a new interview, Christina Applegate opens up about her struggle with coming to terms with losing both of her breasts after undergoing surgery for breast cancer in 2008.
“I miss my exquisite breasts sometimes,” Applegate said in the November issue of More magazine, referencing a line about her breasts in the 2004 comedy “Anchorman.” (The full line: “Mr. Harken, this city needs its news. And you are going to deprive them of that because I have breasts? Exquisite breasts?”)
The “Up all Night” star said that her family, friends and a spiritual advisor helped her overcome her “total emotional collapse.”
Applegate said that while her battle encouraged people to talk about breast cancer, she would have liked more time to cope with her life-altering operation.
“The good thing is that we got the information out, but talking about the facts of the disease [to others], I didn’t have to see what was going on with me,” she told the magazine. “I think when [the attention] slowed down, it all came crashing down.”
When she was diagnosed with breast cancer she said, “I was just shaking and then also immediately, I had to go into ‘take-care-of-business-mode’ which included a change to a more healthy diet.”
Applegate had a full recovery after her surgery. Her mother is also a breast cancer survivor.