In fact, she made her television debut when she was only a few months old.
Her first professional acting gig, she toldUs Weekly, came at the same age.
Applegate explained that the series allowed her to lighten up.
However, there was one point when the hair viewers saw on TV wasn’t actually Christina Applegate’s.
Applegate toldUs Weeklythat her natural hair had to be hidden in one season.
“What a rebel.”
Applegate may not have been telling the whole story.
Further investigation indicates the purple-and-red hair color may have actually been for a movie she was shooting, 1997’sNowhere.
“It just never happened.
It’s just not in the cards.
That ship has sailed.”
Applegate doubled down during a red carpet interview withVariety.
She noted that fans wouldn’t be interested in a reboot at this point.
“I have six tattoos,” she declared.
“They’re all there to keep me grounded,” she toldPeople.
Each tattoo, she explained, had special meaning.
One was the name of her church, while another was the name of her mother.
“And then I have a secret one that I don’t talk about,” she added cryptically.
.. it’s more of a spiritual tattoo."
She also revealed her Hawaii-themed tat depicted tea leaves.
“Hawaiian warriors wore them off to battle and it would protect them against evil,” she said.
“And then she goes, ‘Phoebe.’
And I say, ‘Why does she keep making that noise?'”
“My cousin passed away from ovarian cancer in 2008.
I could prevent that,” she explained.
“That’s how I’ve taken control of everything.
It’s a relief.
That’s one other thing off the table.
Now, let’s hope I don’t get hit by a bus.”
“I felt my heart literally open up for the first time and like wrap itself around her.
It was profound,” gushed Applegate in aPeoplecover story shortly after welcoming daughter Sadie in 2011.
“And I’m more in love with her every minute of the day.”
“She’s healed me in so many ways,” said Applegate of her child.
“She’s just made my life so much better.
She’s opened my whole soul.”
“It tapped into some stuff that I had to face.
It was cathartic,” she admitted.
“I don’t know if [it was] therapeutic.
Did I start therapy after I shot the show?
Yes, absolutely.”
I think it’s really [a] beautiful thing."
“So it hurt.
This 47-year-old body can’t do it anymore.”
When the film’s director, Adam McKay, was casting, Applegate was up against some heavy-hitting competition.
As McKay toldBaller Status, Applegate’s competition included Amy Adams, Leslie Mann, and Maggie Gyllenhaal.
“Amy, at the time, looked like she was only 18.
We couldn’t cast her, even though she’s awesome,” McKay said.
Applegate, he explained, “had that ’50s wholesome thing that we wanted.”
In an interview withSelf, she revealed she’d been battling insomnia for 20 years.
“Some of the nights could be real rough.”
Among the tricks she learned is to avoid news before bed.
She also revealed she’d been listening to short sleep meditations.
“I’m trying to help her with that,” she said.
And that’s led her to feeling regretful for how she’d behaved toward her when she was young.
“I had no idea how much she loved me,” she admitted.
Clearly motherhood changes everything.
