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The the 36-year-old actress is now "absolutely 100 percent clear and clean" of cancer will undergo reconstructive surgery over the next eight months. "I'm going to have cute boobs 'til I'm 90, so there's that," she joked. "I'll have the best boobs in the nursing home. I'll be the envy of all the ladies around the bridge table."
The actress has always closely monitored the situation since her mother, Nancy Priddy, is a repeat breast cancer survivor. "If this had been caught a year from now, or when I was 40, I probably wouldn't be able to live through this.”
"Sometimes, you know, I cry," said Applegate. "And sometimes I scream. And I get really angry. And I get really upset, you know, into wallowing in self-pity sometimes. And I think that it's all part of the healing." Aww. Keep up the good spirit, Christina! We knew you could beat it. [OMG]
