Christina Applegate gained xl pounds, 'can't walk without a pikestaff' amid MS battle

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Christina Applegate revealed she has gained 40 pounds and "can't walk without a cane" after her multiple sclerosis diagnosis.

"This is the first time anyone's going to come across me the fashion I am," the extra, l, told the New York Times on Mon of the upcoming third and final season of "Dead to Me."

Applegate noted that she is "very enlightened of" her changes in advent and mobility.

"I'm never going to accept this," she admitted. "I'thou pissed."

The Emmy winner went on to say that she has had to "process the loss of [her] life" and is still not "totally fine."

The interview came one year after Applegate began sharing her MS battle.

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Christina Applegate has gained 40 pounds and "can't walk without a cane" after her multiple sclerosis diagnosis.

"A few months agone I was diagnosed with MS," the Tony nominee, who shares 11-yr-sometime daughter Sadie with husband Martyn LeNoble, tweeted in August 2021.

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"It'south been a strange journey," she added at the fourth dimension. "But I have been and so supported by people that I know who as well have this condition."

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Applegate asked for "privacy" with her "tough road" ahead, writing, "As we all know, the road keeps going. Unless some a–hole blocks it."

While the "Married… with Children" alum subsequently stayed out of the public center, she did give a health update while jubilant her altogether iii months later on.

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"Yup. I turned 50 today. And I have MS," she wrote via Twitter in November 2021. "It's been a hard one."

With "Expressionless to Me" returning to Netflix on Nov. 17, Applegate has recently been gearing upwards for her first public consequence, posting a photograph last month of the walking sticks that have go her "new normal."