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Christina Applegate’s Instagram Debut “Real, Raw, Honest”
Christina Applegate is lifting the curtain in her life for the fans. The Dead to Me star grabbed a new Instagram account to communicate with the friends and fans—a thing that she never expected. “If you told me a year ago that I’d be on Instagram, I would have said, F–k off!” she wrote on Oct. 16. “But here I am, so I’m going to do it my way. Real, raw, honest.”
Without the words, the 53-year-old whose multiple sclerosis was diagnosed in 2021—refers to the “favorite picture of [herself] lately,” a rather sad black and white photograph in a white T-shirt and jeans, looking at the camera. “It was taken by my lifelong friend @kevingrackle,” she added, “in my backyard with the chimes that remind me of my mother and a moon necklace from a dear witchy friend.”
Celeb Friends Welcome Christina Applegate to Instagram
The former child star is a mother of 14-year-old Sadie Grace LeNoble along with her husband Martyn LeNoble. She got a flood of love and support for her new account. Minka Kelly shouted out, “So good to see you here.” Kaitlyn Bristowe was all in with her “Hell yes” and the ‘MeSsy’ podcast co-host Jamie-Lynn Sigler came in with, “Check this out!”
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Christina Applegate Shares a Gratitude Video and Teases Her Memoir
After the Instagram debut of her account, the Emmy winner shared a video of her thanking the new followers in a very warm manner. “I’m not really a selfie person so please forgive me,” she said on October 17th. “Thank you so much for coming onto the Instagram with me… for the love that you are showing me. I love all of you guys so much and I thank you.”
She also gave a sneak peek of her next memoir, which will be released in March: “I am looking forward to sharing You With the Sad Eyes with everyone because it is my life—the good, the bad, the ugly and the in-between. Peace and blessings.”
Christina Applegate’s Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and Life Health Story
In her first public announcement, Christina Applegate revealed she had been living with MS since August 2021. “Hello friends. I got MS a few months ago,” she posted on social media. “It has been a bizarre experience. However, I have been really fortunate to receive a lot of support from the people whom I also share this condition with. It has been a difficult journey. But we all know that the road is still there. Unless some jerk is blocking it.” After that, she kept sharing bits of her life with MS, which is a mix of openness and humor, thus, she manages to engage with others who also have this disease.
First Public Appearance
At her Hollywood Walk of Fame event which happen to be her first public appearance after revealing that she suffers from MS, she joked, “Well, I have a disease, by the way.” “Weren’t you able to see? I was not wearing shoes,”
Early Symptoms
Christina admits that she reckons her multiple sclerosis (MS) story was six or seven years ago, long before her 2021 diagnosis. In the interview with Good Morning America in March 2024, she said, “I particularly remember the first season [of Dead to Me] when we were shooting and my leg would just give way.” “I simply attributed it to being tired, or that I was dehydrated, or that it was the weather. Then it would be months during which nothing would happen, and I wouldn’t take notice,” she added.
During the third and last season of the show, she was “wheelchaired to the set.” “I couldn’t move that far,” she said. “So I had to tell everybody because I needed help,” she continued.
Making Moves
The actress of the series “Dead to Me” shared an image of her various canes, and with the picture, she wrote: “Walking sticks are now part of my new normal.”
Strong Statement
She had her daughter, Sadie Grace LeNoble, with her when Christina went to the 2023 SAG Awards and there she showed a very clear, powerful and courageous message: “F U MS.”
Just Jokes
After the 2023 Emmys gave her a standing ovation, the Married…With Children alum jokingly said, “You’re totally shaming me with disability by standing up.”
Healing Through Humor
On a March 2024 episode of Armchair Expert, Christina explained, “I put out these jokes because if I don’t, I will literally die from lack of air.” She went on to say, “I wouldn’t be able to survive it.”
MS On Her Mind
“On my brain, I have 30 lesions,” Christina stated likewise, on the Armchair Expert podcast, “The largest one is behind my right eye, so the right eye is very painful.”
As per the source Multiple Sclerosis Trust, lesions are the areas where the immune system is the aggressor, and it attacks the myelin sheath that surrounds the nerves.
Getting real
Christina has shared her condition openly and honestly. When Jimmy Kimmel asked her about her difficulties, the Anchorman actress answered without a second thought, “It sucks.” To that, she added, “I refuse to make a fake impression that it is not true. I think any person who has MS would never say, ‘This is the most fantastic thing that has ever happened to me!'”
In Her Bubble
Christina, while talking to Good Morning America in March 2024, explained the scenario of her life with multiple sclerosis, “I live kind of in hell,” which is quite an expressive way of putting it. She further explained by saying, “But maybe I’ll get to a point where I work a little bit better. At the moment, I am isolating myself and that’s my way of dealing with it, by not going anywhere, because I don’t feel like doing it. It is difficult.”
The Sweetest Support
Among the things that Selma Blair—who was diagnosed with MS in 2018—did for Christina during the making of the Sweetest Thing that Christina most valued was her constantly urging her to check out her own suspicions. Christina said to Good Morning America, “She said to me, ‘You need to get your MS check’.” “If it had not been her, I might have taken a lot longer to find out,” she added.
Friendship Never Dies
In an interview with Vanity Fair in May 2023, Christina shared that Dead to Me is probably going to be her last show where she appears onscreen. She said, “I can’t even picture it in my mind that I’m going to the set right now. Working on-camera is probably not something that I’ll be doing again, but I’m really happy that I did my last work with a person who, without a doubt, is the greatest actress that I have ever worked with in my whole life—maybe even the greatest human that I’ve ever known.”
