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Like Angelina Jolie, Christina Applegate is a carrier of the BRCA gene. When she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008, she too opted to get a double mastectomy.
Now, six years on, the 42-year-old has opened up about the changes to her life and body after surviving the cancer scare.
“I remember three weeks after I had my mastectomy—I think I was on Oprah or something—and I was really, really being a cheerleader to myself at that time, you know? I said, ‘Hey, I’m going to have the perkiest boobs in the nursing room!’ or something to that effect,” Applegate told Elle.com.
“And then you start to live with those boobs, and it’s your reminder every day that this thing happened to you, unfortunately, and it’s a part of your body that’s changed drastically, and embracing that is difficult sometimes.”
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The mother to three-year-old daughter Sadie says breast reconstructions have vastly improved since her operation in 2008.
“I’ve seen [breast implants] on some girls recently where I’m like, 'Those are the best looking boobs I’ve seen. That’s incredible,'” says Applegate.
“So it can be a positive thing, if it has to be. You can get better boobs than you had before, if you so choose.”
When asked about cancer prevention she said, “I have talked to women who do yoga, who are vegan, who have never smoked and/or never drank a day in their life but they have Stage IV breast cancer.”
She also advocates a purely organic diet and healthy lifestyle, “It’s not the cancer getting stronger; it’s that we are being poisoned.”
“The hormones being put in the stuff we eat—all of that contributes to cancer. We are a purely organic house. I know it’s expensive, but find a way.”
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