Christina Applegate Biography

Before she became the woman behind You with the Sad Eyes, before the standing ovations and the cane and the diagnosis that changed everything, Christina Applegate was a three month old baby on a television set, performing before she could hold her own head up. This is the Christina Applegate biography that goes beyond the headlines. From a chaotic Laurel Canyon childhood with an absent father and a mother battling addiction, to becoming Kelly Bundy at fifteen on the longest running sitcom in Fox history, to walking away from the role that made her famous because she knew she was more than a punchline. She turned down Legally Blonde. She broke her foot and spent half a million dollars of her own money to get to Broadway. She won an Emmy for stealing two episodes of Friends. She beat breast cancer at thirty six and started a foundation before the scars had fully healed. She played the angriest, funniest, most honest widow on television in Dead to Me and earned three more Emmy nominations while quietly losing the ability to walk. Then came MS. Then came the wheelchair and the cane and the thirty lesions on her brain and the pain that never drops below an eight. Then came the truth she had been holding back for decades. This is not a Christina Applegate autobiography told in her voice. This is her story told from the outside looking in, built from the public record and the revelations she finally shared with the world. It is the story of a child star who survived child stardom. A woman who refused to be typecast. A two time medical crisis survivor who stopped performing bravery and started performing honesty instead. If you read the Christina Applegate memoir and wanted to know more, if you wanted the full picture from the Playtex commercial to the Walk of Fame star to the number one bestseller, this is that book. This is the story of a woman who has been reaching her whole life. And who has never once stopped.