Christina Applegate had double mastectomy

As we reported last night, Christina Applegate appeared on breakfast show Good Morning America this morning, and as expected announced she is “100% clear and clean” of breast cancer. What we didn’t know last night was what type of procedure she had. Unfortunately Christina had to have a double mastectomy. She opted to have the surgery after testing positive for the BRCA1 breast/ovarian cancer gene, even though the disease was contained in one breast.  Her mom is also a breast cancer survivor. Christina told told reporter Robin Roberts (another breast cancer survivor) that when she was told she had breast cancer:

“I was just shaking and then also immediately, I had to go into ‘take-care-of-business’ mode.

“After looking at all the treatment plans that were possibilities for me, the only one that seemed the most logical and the one that was going to work for me was to have a bilateral mastectomy.”

 

Christina will undergo reconstructive surgery in the next 8 months and is keeping a great attitude.

“I am going to have cute boobs until I am 90. I am going to have the best boobs in the nursing home.”

Christina is scheduled to appear on a one-hour TV special, called Stand Up to Cancer, to be aired on ABC, CBS and NBC on 5 September to raise funds for cancer research.