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Christina Applegate far exceeded her own expectations for herself during a recent vacation.
Applegate, 52, who has been candid about her battle with multiple sclerosis since her 2021 diagnosis, shared the win during the Tuesday, April 9, episode of her and Jamie-Lynn Sigler’s “MeSsy” podcast.
“I ended up walking. I couldn’t believe it. The first couple of days I walked with my cane and then I started to feel like that was actually hindering me a little bit in some weird way,” Applegate said of the family trip to The Netherlands and Paris. “All of a sudden this, like, strange superpower took over and I just ended up walking without my cane the whole rest of the time and was amazed by it.”
The Dead to Me alum noted that her level of activity surprised her, as she hasn’t “gone over maybe 2,000 steps in a day” in two years.
Sharing her journey. Christina Applegate revealed her multiple sclerosis diagnosis in August 2021 and has been candid about how the disease affects her life ever since. “Hi friends. A few months ago, I was diagnosed with MS,” the Married … With Children alum wrote via Twitter at the time. “It’s been a strange journey. But […]
“And I was looking at my Fitbit and it was like 9,000 [steps] a day,” she said.
Applegate described the “great” getaway as a “big family get-together” and noted that her husband, Martyn LeNoble, has family in the Netherlands.
Christina Applegate and Martyn LeNoble Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images
The update comes after Applegate admitted during an episode of the podcast earlier this month that she hadn’t “taken a shower in three weeks” because she was unable to stand up in the shower due to her MS symptoms.
“[I have] insane tingling that just has spurts of tingles that are weird coming from, like, my butt down,” Applegate explained. “I haven’t slept for 24 hours because my eye is doing something weird where every time I close my eye to go to sleep my right eye starts to shift.”
She continued: “[I] definitely am going to have to go in and see someone because it’s a little scary and freaking me out that my eye is going to burst out of my face or something. I’m a little concerned about that, and my legs have never been this bad, so I don’t know what’s going on.”
Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency/MEGA The Sopranos alum Jamie-Lynn Sigler first opened up about her multiple sclerosis battle in 2016, nearly 15 years after she was diagnosed with the autoimmune disease at age 20. “I already had a big career. It was difficult to accept,” Sigler said while sharing the health update during an October 2016 […]
Sigler, 42, who also has MS, said on Tuesday that Applegate pushing herself out of her comfort zone on the trip to Europe seemed to do wonders for her. She pointed out that while deviating from her routine often causes her stress, it seemed to have the “opposite” effect on Applegate.
“You got out of your element. You and I spoke briefly and you mentioned to me it was almost like a purpose that you had every day [and] that you were able to see how much more you could physically do,” she said. “And I think that’s really important for you to realize.”
Applegate admitted that the “devastation” of her diagnosis sometimes takes over “to the point where I don’t want to try.” She shared that although she was on her feet more than she anticipated during the trip, it was “hard” to accept her slower pace.
“It was hard seeing everyone’s backs,” she said. “Just kind of being the little caboose the whole time, which, you know, is a hard feeling. But then everyone kind of saw that and then would try to stick with me and make me feel like we could walk at my pace too. So, I felt good about it.”
