Christina Applegate has both breasts removed to beat cancer

Breast cancer is a terrifying disease at the best of times, so when you’re a woman famour – in part – for the way you look, the way you move and – not to be too flippant – your womanly curves – it must suck even bigger.

So a big thumbs up to brave Christina Applegate, 36, who has burst forth onto the TV circuit and spoken eloquently and honestly about her double mastectomy and upcoming breast reconstruction surgery.

She told Good Morning America:

“I didn’t want to go back to the doctors every four months for testing and squishing and everything.

“I just wanted to kind of get rid of this whole thing for me. This was the choice that I made and it was a tough one.

“My decision, after looking at all the treatment plans that were possibilities for me, the only one that seemed the most logical and the one that was going to work for me was to have a bilateral mastectomy,” she said.

She’s now clean of cancer “100%” and will have new boobs built over the next eight months.
“I’m going to have cute boobs ’til I’m 90, so there’s that,” she laughed.

“I’ll have the best boobs in the nursing home. I’ll be the envy of all the ladies around the bridge table.”

“Sometimes, you know, I cry,” she said. “And sometimes I scream. And I get really angry. And I get really upset, you know, into wallowing in self-pity sometimes. And I think that it’s all part of the healing.”

Her mum, Nancy Priddy, who has repeatedly survived breast cancer, has been a support.

“She’s been sort of this quiet warrior in the back and has been a great support, and just telling me that I was going to be OK.

“And I knew I was going to be OK. I’ve watched her.

“I’ve watched her have a mastectomy, and then I’ve watched her go through two years of chemotherapy and eight surgeries and a hysterectomy… I’ve watched this woman survive both those things. So, for me, there was always that sense that I was going to be OK, no matter what.”

The cancer was detected in a routine check-up, something that will resonate with all women who have put off booking their next smear test or medical.

“If this had been caught a year from now, or when I was 40, I probably wouldn’t be able to live through this,” said Christina.

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