| International Standard Book Number |
9780316594929
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| International Standard Book Number |
031659492X
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
791.4302/8092 B 23/eng/20260206
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| Personal Name |
Applegate, Christina, 1971- author.
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| Title Statement |
You with the sad eyes : a memoir / Christina Applegate.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Publisher |
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
viii, 289 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent.
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia.
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| Carrier Type |
volume rdacarrier.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Prologue -- Star, fucker! -- LaLa Land -- The bathroom floor -- Quit -- Married... With Children -- Nostradamus -- The orange curtains -- Hawaii -- Filthy McNasty -- Red wedding -- Bing bang boom -- Metatarsal #5 -- Kibitz kismet -- Right action for women -- Pinch -- Who do I think I am? -- Dead To Me -- The lady in the bathtub from The Shining.
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| Summary, Etc. |
Christina Applegate came of age on sets and stages, expected to be on time, with lines learned, ready for lights-camera-action. What started as a financial necessity soon became an emotional escape from a tumultuous home life in the infamous Laurel Canyon scene of the 70s and 80s. She rocketed to stardom on the sitcom Married...with Children and went on to captivate audiences in classics like Don't Tell Mom the Babysitters Dead..., Anchorman, and Dead to Me in her five-decade long career. Then it all stopped. A Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis in 2021 confined her to a king-sized bed and the company of memories she'd rather forget: memories of the self-doubt and body dysmorphia that stalked her meteoric rise, of her mother's fight against addiction and abuse after her father left, and of the tax life had taken on her body and mind that was suddenly coming due. Now, at her most intimate and vulnerable, she unveils a story not even those closest to her fully know. She returns to the diaries she kept her whole life, finding the pain matched by joy, the losses mitigated by the extraordinary, and the weight of life lifted by her unrelenting belief that something greater lay ahead. No longer willing to lock herself away and with the perspective only our own mortality can bring, she knew it was imperative to tell it all.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Applegate, Christina, 1971-
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Motion picture actors and actresses Biography. United States
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Television actors and actresses Biography. United States
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Multiple sclerosis Biography. Patients
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Autobiographies. lcgft.
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