Stars Christina Applegate and Katey Sagal candidly shared how brutally honest the cast members were on the set of the iconic \u201890s show.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“We were a sarcastic, cynical bunch,” Sagal admitted on her “Pie” podcast,<\/a> with husband Kurt Sutter. “You weren’t safe, really. You turned your back, somebody’s going to talk s— on you.”<\/p>\n ‘MARRIED \u2026 WITH CHILDREN\u2019 STAR CHRISTINA APPLEGATE ADMITS PRESSURES OF BEING SEX SYMBOL LED TO EATING DISORDER<\/a><\/p>\n \u2018Married\u2026 With Children\u2019 actors Christina Applegate, David Faustino, Ed O’Nell, and Katy Sagal pose for a portrait in October 1988. (Aaron Rapoport\/Corbis\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n Applegate, their guest on the podcast, chimed in and recalled the moment she realized people were trash-talking her while she was steps away in her dressing room.<\/p>\n “I could hear being talked s— about in my dressing room on the monitor,” she said. “I\u2019d come up from rehearsal and I can hear everybody on set, literally talking s— about me.”<\/p>\n “I was like, ‘Wow, I was just there 20 seconds ago,'” she shared of her reaction.<\/p>\n Sagal played Applegate\u2019s onscreen mother on the show, which ran from 1987 until 1997.<\/p>\n LIKE WHAT YOU\u2019RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS<\/a><\/p>\n ‘Married… With Children’ stars reveal backstage trash-talking drama. (Aaron Rapoport\/Corbis\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n Applegate previously revealed that the pressures she faced on “Married \u2026 with Children” led to her developing an eating disorder.<\/p>\n In March, the “Dead to Me”<\/a> actress opened up about being a child star and how it deeply impacted her health being in the spotlight.\u00a0<\/p>\n “Playing that character kind of did things to me in my psyche that were no bueno \u2013 like anorexia,” she explained on her “MeSsy” podcast while speaking to guest Sagal at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n CHRISTINA APPLEGATE SHARES \u2018WEIRD\u2019 SYMPTOMS SHE EXPERIENCED BEFORE BEING DIAGNOSED WITH MS<\/a><\/p>\n “Yeah, a pretty bad eating disorder started when I was doing that show that lasted for a really long time,” she said.<\/p>\n Applegate said that she never told anyone about the disorder and was “very, very private about it.”<\/p>\n Christina Applegate said she developed an eating disorder while starring on the show. (Aaron Rapoport \/ TM and \u00a9Fox Network. All rights reserved. \/ Courtesy Everett Collection; Jon Kopaloff\/FilmMagic)<\/p>\n “I would hide in bathrooms to eat, because I had so much shame around eating that I would hide on the airplanes, like when we went to London,” she said. “I remember hiding in there to eat like one shrimp, ’cause I was so afraid if anyone saw me eat that they\u2019d think I was going to try to get fat or something. I don\u2019t know. I was in such a dark space.”<\/p>\n Sagal agreed that Applegate was “very much scrutinized” on the show because she was the “sex symbol.”<\/p>\n Being a sex symbol at 17 would “f— with” anyone’s head, Sagal said, adding that “it was a very misogynistic show.”<\/p>\n![\"Married](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/married-with-children-cast.jpg\")
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