Christina Applegate‘s daughter Sadie LeNoble is navigating her own health struggles.
Amid the Dead to Me actress‘ journey with multiple sclerosis (MS), her 13-year-old daughter has been diagnosed with Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, also known as POTS, which can cause symptoms such as fast heart rate, dizziness and fatigue when transitioning from sitting or lying down to standing up.
“When I stand up, I get really, really dizzy and like my legs get really weak and I feel like I’m going to pass out,” Sadie explained on the June 25 episode of her mom’s MeSsy podcast.” And I have fainted before and I have gone unconscious, but that doesn’t usually happen.”
And while the diagnosis has presented certain challenges for the teen—especially while at school—it has also helped her better understand her mom’s struggles.
“I feel like if I didn’t have this thing, it would be a lot harder to understand what my mom’s going through,” Sadie, whose dad is Christina’s ex-husband Martyn LeNoble, shared. “When my mom’s like, ‘Oh, I’m in pain right now. Oh, I’m having tremors.’ If I didn’t have this, I probably would be like, ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about.’ But I have tremors from POTS.”
