Christina Applegate has had several health battles over the years. Her experience with multiple sclerosis has been most publicized recently, but the "Dead to Me" star also had breast cancer.
She was diagnosed in 2008 at the age of 36 and underwent a bilateral mastectomy. "It came on really fast. It was one of those things that I woke up and it felt so right," she recalled about her decision to have the procedure on "The Oprah Winfrey Show."
"It just seemed like, 'I don't want to have to deal with this again. I don't want to keep putting that stuff in my body. I just want to be done with this.' . . . I was just going to let them go," Applegate went on to say. She also told Oprah that the experience changed her entire perspective. "I have taken a very progressive stance in the rest of my life," she says. "For that, I'm really grateful."
