Overview
- The memoir, You With the Sad Eyes, is published Tuesday after excerpts and interviews appeared in recent days.
- Applegate recounts intensive steroid treatment and a roughly 40‑pound gain, followed by a clear‑liquid diet and a loss of 50 pounds or more within seven months.
- She attributes the rapid loss to MS‑related gastrointestinal problems and says certain foods now risk sending her back to the ER.
- She reports more than 30 hospitalizations since 2021 and describes severe leg muscle loss that makes walking feel unsafe.
- Despite periods confined to bed, she says she maintains small routines like taking her daughter to school and has launched the Next in MS community.