
Christina Applegate had her photo taken nude just before removing her breasts so that she could remember what her breasts looked like.
Applegate was diagnosed with breast cancer earlier this year (a disease her mother has battled) and decided on removal of her breasts in the hopes of stopping the disease from spreading.
She recently told Oprah:
“I did my first and last nudie photoshoot at home. I made sure that I have close-up photographs of them from every angle, so I can kind of remember them.”
She will eventually have reconstructive surgery, and in the meanwhile has had “expanders” put in her chest. She explains:
They keep expanding over a few months until they take those out and put in your implants… They have this strange little thing that they insert in there and they keep filling it up with saline to expand behind the muscles.”
She talks about the change she sees and feels:
“You’ve got scarring and there’s a lot of things you’re missing… and the shape is not the same and it doesn’t feel the same and it’s hard to carry your purse and there are so many limitations.
“It’s sad. I cry at least once a day about it because it’s hard to overlook it when you’re standing there in the mirror.”
The upside:
“I don’t have to wear a bra… ever again.”