Actress Christina Applegate, who became a new mom for the first time less than a month ago, talked for the first time about the incredible and profoundly painful experience of giving birth to her daughter Sadie Grace LeNoble in an interview for “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” on Tuesday (February 22).

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The 39 year-old also confessed that during that moment she completely forgot all her insecurities. Christina told Ellen DeGeneres she has some body-image issues after her double mastectomy, which completely disappeared when her daughter arrived. How beautiful… I’m in tears!

Here is what Christina Applegate had to say about giving birth on Ellen:

Ellen: “Was it a hard labor or was it quick? Fast?”
Christina: “It was about 18 hours.”
Ellen: “That’s long.”
Christina: “It is long. I had my plan. Plans are a big joke, you know, [mine] was to have an epidural but I didn’t react to it well.”
Ellen: “What are you talking about?”
Christina: “I didn’t like it. I didn’t like the feeling of numbness. I didn’t like it. It was really creepy to me. It was too much so we turned it off and we opted for go all the way.”
Ellen: “Wow!”
Christina: “Feeling it all.”
Ellen: “How was that?”
Christina: “I like to say that I opted for it but they accidentally turned it off.” (Laughs)
Ellen: “Was it painful?”
Christina: “It was profound. It was profound pain. And then that happens (pointing to photo of daughter). Just that moment, pulling her out and I dropped my gown which I don’t do. This part of my body is very private to me [her chest]…that’s a real private place. A place that I don’t have a good relationship with, let’s say. But at that moment of pulling her out and I just tore that thing [gown] off. There’s a room full of people that I don’t know. Nurses and doctors. And she and I just laid there. It was the best thing that’s ever happened to me.”
Ellen: “That’s a beautiful moment.”

[image: Ellen]