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Yesterday, Christina Applegate attended the GennComm Fertile Action Charity Luncheon in Los Angeles. I have just added 5 photos from the event into our photo gallery!

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I have just added 330 high definition screen captures of Christina Applegate appearing on this week’s episode of “So You Think You Can Dance?” She will be back on the show this coming week to judge again!

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Earlier today, Christina Applegate co-hosted and participated in the 21st Annual Revlon Run Walk For Women in Los Angeles. I have just added 183 HQ and MQ photos from the event into our photo gallery!

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High up in the Hollywood Hills, a warm spring day is breaking into a cool, pink-hued dusk. Tucked behind an iron gate lies a leafy backyard filled with a paint-splattered easel, toys, slides and one happy, gallivanting child. It’s here where Christina Applegate sinks into a deep, white outdoor couch with her mom, Nancy Priddy.

“I want to feed the fish!” chirps Sadie, 3, a blond, blue-eyed cherub of a child, peering into a pond filled with koi as dinner cooks in the kitchen.

Today, a wet-haired Applegate, 42, is playing the part of a mother who barely has time to shower. She talks about mornings in her house, where she struggles to fit in a cup of coffee before hearing a familiar call. “Uh, is someone gonna come GET ME?” Applegate mimics her daughter.

Priddy laughs. “She’s a very funny child.”

Normalcy here is blissful, and several steps removed from the buzz of Hollywood below this perch. In her Spanish-style home, the actress best known for the Anchorman movies and Married … With Children has created a Rapunzel-like sanctuary (her words). It’s where she has successfully beaten cancer, had her baby and married. A gold nameplate necklace around Applegate’s neck reads ‘Sadie,’ but she is otherwise unadorned, makeup-free and dressed simply in a tank top and jeans.

Applegate grew up in these hills, raised by her mother after her parents separated when she was a baby. “You’ve never lived anywhere else,” points out Priddy, a former actress who says she never wanted her daughter to enter show business. But as a child, Applegate was spotted by her music teacher, an aspiring child agent, who “begged me to take Chrissy around,” Priddy says.

At age 3, Applegate began booking radio jobs, which turned into modeling and small TV gigs. In 1987, Married called, and so did fame.

“Fox shows were not considered anything back then,” Applegate recalls. “I had my busted-up little Honda until I was 25 years old. I went to the Golden Globes, and I did my own hair and wore a ripped vintage dress.”

In the aughts, amid more TV and film success, Applegate contracted breast cancer. The disease was a ghost of the past; her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer in the late ’70s and also battled ovarian cancer in 1995.

“Right after I went through everything, there was a lot about coming out as a ‘warrior’ and a ‘hero.’ It took me a couple of years to realize that I wasn’t and how much pain is involved in the whole process of it,” says Applegate, who was diagnosed in 2008 at age 36. “It was hard for me to be honest at that time because I was trying to cheer myself up, too.”

A double mastectomy followed, and for Priddy, watching the girl who had cheered her through chemo, who helped her dye her thinning hair bright purple all those years ago, watching her go through that pain was nearly unbearable. “I would just sob over at the cancer center with my oncologist. I’d say, “Just have me! Give it to me, not to her.’ “

Sadie’s laughter tinkles in the background, a sweet reminder of what a child can represent. Priddy is relishing the role of Grandma. “Because you don’t have to deal with her tantrums,” Applegate says, laughing.

“Christina has always talked to her like we’re talking, no baby talk,” Priddy says. “She’s always read books to her and sings to her and dances with her. You’re really patient with her,” she says, turning to her daughter, whose eyes begin to mist.

With cancer on both sides of her family, Applegate keeps Sadie “as alkaline as a kid can get,” focusing on a low-acid diet of leafy greens while avoiding most dairy, gluten and sugar.

Mother’s Day is a sweet exception. In the yard, “we do French lunch,” Applegate says. “Just a beautiful cheese platter with all the accouterments.” She grins. “And red wine, and we have music.”

Later, Applegate’s husband, musician Martyn LeNoble, will cuddle Sadie in the kitchen as a veggie-loaded pizza is pulled from the oven. Their first anniversary has just come and past in February. Marriage hasn’t changed their relationship, Applegate says, “because we had a baby before we were married.” But, “there is this sense of, ‘OK, we’re a unit.’ “

This year could prove fruitful. Her last turn, in NBC’s Up All Night, could lead to a possible “dark and twisty” TV dramedy, and Applegate has started meditating again, a practice she had let go of in the past few years. “Baby steps for me,” she says.

It’s Sadie who keeps the compass due north. “We have made it here,” Applegate says, looking at her mother. “And the result is her. Through all the trials and tribulations, and all the battles we’ve had to go through — that people know about and don’t know about. We look at her and go, ‘Wow, we are so incredibly lucky,’ ” Applegate says as the little girl totters around. “Just thank you, universe, for her.”

Christina’s Causes

Christina Applegate’s cancer was detected in early stages via MRI screening, an experience that inspired her to launch Right Action for Women (RAW), a foundation that funds free cancer-screening MRIs for high-risk women.

“The women who come to us have a co-pay or they don’t have insurance at all,” Applegate says.

She dreams of expanding services to take women through their cancer journey with locally targeted nutritionists, holistic options and support groups.

Applegate still gets screened every three months, having tested positive for the BRCA1 gene mutation (she underwent a preventative double mastectomy in 2008). “You have a constant reminder when you look down,” she shrugs. “You just do.” Despite not wanting cancer to be her identity, “this is something (my mom) and I have and we share,” the actress says. “And that’s important to talk about.”

Applegate also works as creative director for FabKids, a subscription clothing service that matches children’s fashions to their personalities. Sadie “picks her clothes,” Applegate says. “She puts things together that are sometimes just wonderfully, beautifully bizarre. And that’s what she’s going to wear. … We went to (the Los Angeles County Museum of Art) the other day, and she had on striped leggings, an enormous yellow tulle tutu and some kind of weird T-shirt thing happening. I love her individuality.”

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Christina Applegate was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008, and she opted to have a double mastectomy later in the year. Now, she’s opening up to ET about how she’s coping with life after the procedure, as well as how she’s helping other at-risk women.

“I lost my mind,” said Christina, 42, when asked how she reacted to her diagnosis. “I still sometimes lose my mind six years later. You look down and you have a daily reminder of everything that you’ve gone through.”

The double mastectomy saved her life after her breast cancer was detected by an MRI when she was 36 years old. “I started getting mammograms at 30, but my doctor said ‘the mammograms are not working for you because you’re too dense, and so we’re going to do an MRI.’ It was with that MRI that I found cancer, years before a mammogram would have.”

The former “Married with Children” star finds that as a mother to Sadie Grace, she worries that the foods we eat have something to do with women getting cancer so early on in life. “We have her on a completely plant-based diet,” she told ET’s Brooke Anderson. “It’s because I want her to have the best chance possible.”

Today, Christina’s foundation Right Action for Women gives free MRIs for high-risk women. “Were into almost 500 now,” said Christina. “We’ve spent over half a million dollars on MRIs, which is really incredible.”

Christina admits that the cost of those MRIs has taken its toll, and now she needs to replenish. If you’d like to donate or learn more about her foundation, check out this link.