Christina Applegate dropped her defenses after giving birth to baby daughter

Christina Applegate dropped her defenses after giving birth to baby daughter. Christina Applegate says she dropped her defenses and pulled daughter Sadie to her chest just moments after giving birth.

The actress — who gave birth to the baby, her first child with fiance Martyn LeNoble, on Jan. 27 — has kept her chest closely guarded since her double mastectomy in 2008.

“I dropped my gown, which I don’t do,” Applegate, 39, says in an interview airing Tuesday on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

“This part of my body [her chest] is very private to me … 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, I just tore that [gown] off.

“There’s a room full of people that I don’t know. Nurses and doctors. And she and I just lay there. It was the best thing that’s every happened to me.”

“It was about 18 hours,” Applegate says of her labor. “I had my plan. Plans are a big joke, you know.”

Christina Applegate had an epidural, but didn’t take to it well, and ended up feeling most of the pain.

“It was profound,” she says. “It was profound pain.”

Christina has previously revealed what type of mom she thinks she’ll be.

“I’ll probably be a little bit hippie and a little bit Type A,” she said.

“I’ll take from what my mother did, which was way hippie and like, ‘Do what you wanna do,’ and bring some things that I know from watching my friends raise their kids. An amalgamation of sorts.”

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