Christina Applegate Had Plastic Surgery After These Tone-Deaf Comments From a Producer

With red carpets happening left and right in Hollywood, celebrities face a certain pressure to look young, cool, and, of course, picture-perfect. And while that might include hiring a whole team of experts to help, from stylists to makeup artists, getting photo-ready could include taking some major risks too.

In a new of Christina Applegate and Jamie-Lynn Sigler’s MeSsy podcast, Applegate got candid about why she chose to do plastic surgery under her eyes when she was 27 years old. According to the Dead to Me star, it all started when a producer made some unnecessarily rude comments about her appearance. At the time, she starred in the NBC sitcom Jesse, which ran for just two seasons between 1998 and 2000. 

“I was on a show and one of the producers — [a] very famous [person] who did a very famous show as well — said, ‘Hey we’re having a lot of trouble lighting under your eyes. The bags under your eyes are so big,’” the actress recalled, per Page Six.

Not knowing what to do, Applegate joked about it. “[My dad] has got Louis Vuitton luggage under his eyes,” she said, adding that the under-eye bags are purely a “hereditary thing.”

Instead of pulling back, however, the producer kept insisting. “I suggest you get them removed,” he once told her.

“You know what I did? At 27 years old, I had the only plastic surgery I’ve ever had to remove the bags under my eyes,” she reflected. “I went under.” It seems like even if she’s happy with the result, she’s not proud of not caving to the peer pressure she faced.

Speaking of pressure, Applegate has also been candid in the past about her eating disorder when she was just 15 years old starring in Married With Children.

“If I got down to 110 [pounds], she’d be like… ‘How’d you do it?’ And the reason was, I had an eating disorder,” the actress admitted in another MeSsy episode, per People. “I would eat five almonds in a day. And if I had six, I would cry and I wouldn’t want to leave the house. And that stuck with me for years and years and years.”

With those dark times behind her, kudos to Applegate for being honest and open about her struggles and experiences. We hope she’s now in a better place to not let the outside noise get to her as much.

Before you go, click here to see more moms who’ve opened up about their plastic surgery procedures.