What are your thoughts on Christina Applegate's voluntary double mastectomy?

Question

Would you do the same thing in a breast cancer situation?

Answer 1

even thoe i am a male,i am happy for her being cancer free.But at the same time when sicoity shows and teaches us,that both men and women are different,we are defined somewhat buy our bodies so,to see someone like that with just a flat chest,is creapy,its not even a cup size,She will have the reconstrucive surgrey done but at the same time it will be months before she is whole again.i hope her spouse or BF is willing to except her with just a flat chest,i guess there goes the love in that sexualy realtionship.But at the same time its goign to take 8 months i wonder how ppl are treating her right now,as of this time.From my understanding she is only left with just the nipple no other marks besides that,she is what most ppl would deem as a freak show,but at the same time she is still a woman if you can call her that

Seeing how she has said its goign to be serverl months down the road,and with her filming samatha who.Witch fits now with her seeing do you call her sam(sort for samantha or Sam as in Samual seeing what defines a female as wanted is her body,seeing how most what i read,Puts my thinking of her without b*****s and seeing her without anything on her chest,makes us wonder how her friends,family and colliles as well as fans going to treat someone like her,in the world we live in,men and woman are different in all apperances,there looks for one is what really defines a man or a woman,not just the sexual organs,seeing how after she gets breast reconstrucion who knows if she will go the extra steps to fully complete it with arealos and nipple reconstruction.It is also hard for her to except that over time that skin will be very senictived,but she will no longer have any feelings in that area so as for an active s*x life it might never return.She might have her senice of humor intact but in the long run she might regert it seeing how,to most people i have talked to we all are sympthyic to her but at the same time this one person does not see her as a female becouse her body is not femmine anymore without what god maid when he created eve,intill that part is restored,its come to my attention that she is 50% female on the inside but on the outside you can tell she was not really herself on that interview,i belive most ppl were looking at the interview and paying more attention to her vneck shirt,and more attention to her chest to see if they could see anything that would make her somewhat female in apperence,to this person who has followed her entire career,this is the low point as i see it her personal low point,"Applegate said she plans to have breast reconstruction several months down the road" With that line it looks like she might wait a yr or two before going thru this,i wonder what the producses are going to do about her in Char on her show seeing this does pose alot of challanges,when the main char is female but lacks the fenninme quailtys her b*****s

Answer 2

Of course. She is also a rich celebrity and can afford plastic surgery b***s the next day. I'm glad she is now free of cancer too (:

Answer 3

It is the best thing she could have done. Being someone who has 2+ generations of breast cancer in my family, I am very susceptible to this type of cancer. Due to insurance mumbo jumbo, I cannot even get looked at for 7 more years. If anything should happen in the meantime, this is exactly what I would do. Plus now she gets to pick out her b***s...who doesn't want to do that? I think there should be more awareness and preventative policies out there. Having celebrities with cancer is, unfortunately, a good way to get things accomplished.

Answer 4

I support her all the way. It must have been an incredibly hard decision to make. If I was a woman, and faced the same problem, if they told me it would save my life, I would do it. As a guy, if they said I had testicular cancer and by removing them it would save my life, I would do it.

Answer 5

I think it took a lot of guts and it could not have been an easy decision to make but it could ultimately save her life.  I like to think that if I were faced with that decision I would be able to handle it the same way she did.

Answer 6

Uh yeah?  Hmm let's see.  Die, cut off b***s, die, cut off b***s.  I think the answer is clear but it would suck.