Actress Christina Applegate Diagnosed With Breast Cancer

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Christina Applegate (36 years old) has been diagnosed with breast cancer. Actress Christina Applegate, famed for playing ditzy daughter Kelly Bundy on a legendary TV comedy is now fighting breast cancer. She is expected to make a full recovery, lets hope that is true.

Former “Married... With Children” actress Christina Applegate is undergoing treatment for breast cancer, a spokesperson for the star announced to press.

Fortunately, the 36-year-old is expected to make a full recovery after being diagnosed with cancer during a regular MRI scan, representative Ame Van Iden confirmed in a statement released on Saturday night (August 2). A rep for Applegate said in the statement late Saturday:

"Christina Applegate was diagnosed with an early form of breast cancer. Benefiting from early detection through a doctor ordered MRI, the cancer is not life threatening. Christina is following the recommended treatment of her doctors, and will have a full recovery. No further statement will be issued at this time."

Meanwhile, Applegate is still believed to be appearing at the Emmy Awards, as she was nominated for Best Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her role in hit TV show Samantha Who? On July 1st Applegate’s boyfriend, Lee Grivas (26), was found dead in his apartment,who died of a drug overdose and now she is dealing with a breast cancer diagnosis. This is a difficult time for Applegate. We wish her all the best. Stay strong. Click on picture to enlarge.


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Christina Applegate (born November 25, 1971 in Hollywood, California, U.S.A.) is an Emmy Award winning American actress, known for playing Kelly Bundy on the long-running FOX Broadcasting Company sitcom Married... with Children. She has since established a film and television career, with major roles in several pictures, such as Farce of the Penguins, Anchorman, The Sweetest Thing, a Broadway revival of the musical Sweet Charity and is the lead character, Samantha Newly, in the ABC sitcom Samantha Who? blogywoodbabes.blogspot.com


Her first big screen appearance followed at age nine when she was seen in the 1981 films Jaws of Satan (a.k.a. King Cobra), and Beatlemania. She debuted in a television movie as Young Grace Kelly in the biopic Grace Kelly (1983, opposite Cheryl Ladd) and appeared on her first TV series in Showtime's political comedy Washingtoon (1985), in which she played a Congressman's daughter. She was also spotted as a guest in the shows Father Murphy (1981) and Charles in Charge (1984 and 1985).

In 1986, Applegate won the role of Robin Kennedy (1986-1987), a cop's daughter, on the police drama series Heart of the City. Meanwhile, she was also seen guest starring in the sitcoms All is Forgiven, Still the Beaver, Amazing Stories, and Family Ties.

Applegate eventually scored her most memorable role of ditzy Kelly Bundy in Fox's comedy series Married... with Children. She portrayed her character for ten years (1987-1997). While working on the series, Applegate was seen in Dance 'Til Dawn (1988, NBC) and in Streets (1990), in which a teenage drug addict is stalked by a psychotic police officer. Applegate guest-starred in 21 Jump Street (1988), Top of the Heap (1991, as Kelly Bundy), and hosted Saturday Night Live (May 8, 1993) and Mad TV (1996). blogywoodbabes.blogspot.com

The character of Sue Ellen Crandell in the comedy feature Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991) was Applegate's first starring role. She followed it up with films such as Vibrations (1995), Across the Moon (1995), Wild Bill (1995), Mars Attacks! (1996), and Nowhere (1997). After the sitcom Married... with Children was canceled in May 1997, Applegate starred as Claudine Van Doozen in the independent feature Claudine's Return (a.k.a. Kiss of Fire), was cast in the action-comedy The Big Hit, and played the fiancée of a Mob descendant in the Mafia satire Jane Austen's Mafia (1998).

In that same year, NBC handed her the title role in their sitcom Jesse. The series debuted in 1998, received rave reviews, and brought Applegate a People's Choice Award for Favorite Female Performer in a New TV series and the TV Guide Award for Star of a New Series as well as a nomination at the Golden Globe for Lead Actress in a Comedy. Though the series gained praise, it was canceled in 2000.

"This was a major commitment. I really had to sit and think about it. I eventually came to the conclusion that it came into my life for a reason." - Christina Applegate (on accepting her role in the sitcom Jesse). blogywoodbabes.blogspot.com

The new millennium saw Applegate playing the dual role of a 12th-century noblewoman, Princess Rosalind, and her 21st-century descendant, Julia Malfete, in the time-travel comedy Just Visiting (2001). After gaining wide notice for playing Cameron Diaz's level-headed best friend, Courtney Rockcliffe, in The Sweetest Thing (2002), Applegate continued to win roles in such movies as Heroes (2002), the airplane comedy View from the Top (2003), Wonderland (2003), Grand Theft Parsons (2003), Surviving Christmas (2004) and Employee of the Month (2004). Behind the screen, she was the executive producer of Comforters, Miserable (2001).