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->''"I started doing radio commercials for Kmart when I was 4. They had to splice all my consonants together because I couldn't talk very well. But these jobs helped my mother and me put food on the table. It took the two of us working."''

Christina Applegate (born November 25, 1971 in Hollywood, California) is an American actress. If you're of a certain age and you remember the raunchy FOX sitcom ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'', you'll know her as Kelly Bundy, the sexually promiscuous, dumb blonde teenage daughter of Al Bundy (played by Creator/EdONeill) and Peggy Bundy (played by Creator/KateySagal). Her most notable roles beyond that were in the films ''Film/AnchormanTheLegendOfRonBurgundy'' and ''Film/Anchorman2TheLegendContinues'' and in the series ''Series/{{Jesse}}'', ''Series/SamanthaWho'', ''Series/UpAllNight'' and ''Series/DeadToMe''. She also voiced Brittany in the ''Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'' films, Mary Beth in ''WesternAnimation/TheBookOfLife'', and had a guest role in ''WesternAnimation/AskTheStorybots''.

A trained dancer, she was a founding member of the Music/PussycatDolls when they started out as a burlesque troupe performing at the Viper Room.

She developed multiple sclerosis in 2021 and later announced during the 2023 Screen Actors Guild Awards her intention to step away from acting due to declining health.
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!!Associated Tropes:
* BareMidriffsAreFeminine: Very frequently wore crop tops and bikinis early in her career when she was often cast as MsFanservice, especially as Kelly Bundy.
* BrainlessBeauty - Kelly didn't invent the dumb slutty blonde stereotype, but she sure as hell added to its fame. In fact, Christina Applegate has been spending the rest of her career trying to get away from that image.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Her role as Kelly Bundy of ''Married With Children'' fame.
* GameBreakingInjury: Was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2021, which likely played a role in ''Dead to Me'' ending after its third season. She was seen walking with a cane at the 2023 Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony and revealed during in a concurrent interview that she planned to step away from acting due to her declining health.
* IAmNotSpock: ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' may have been her StarmakingRole and she still has a preference for comedy, but she didn't want to be typecast as MsFanservice, so she has spent the rest of her acting career playing intelligent, driven women. In fact, she has spent so much of her career getting away from ditzy, fanservice Kelly Bundy, that odds are, if you see her in a film/tv role, it’s almost CERTAIN that she’s playing a smart, capable, sassy, intelligent woman.
** She did seem to be going in the direction of being typecast early in her career. For example, she played a character that was for all sakes and purposes a DarkerAndEdgier Kelly Bundy on an episode of Series/TwentyOneJumpStreet.
* MsFanservice: Practically her main purpose in ''Married With Children''.
* OldShame: In 1989, her date to the MTV Movie Awards was a then not so known actor, while she was a big star. Halfway through the show, she ditched him for a "relatively well known guy" (she has yet to say who). Two years later, a friend was visiting and saw a trailer for a movie and asked "Isn't that the guy you ditched?" Applegate was so shocked she dropped her popcorn. The trailer? ''Film/ThelmaAndLouise''. The guy? You guessed it: [[strike:Frank Stallone/strike]] Creator/BradPitt!
* ReferencedBy: Is name dropped in the 1991 R&B song "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss" by Music/PMDawn.
--> "Christina Applegate, you gotta put me on."
* StarMakingRole: Her role as Kelly Bundy in Series/MarriedWithChildren.