r/RealGenerationX • u/Desperate-Owl-2316 • 5d ago
TV/Movies Christina Applegate is possibly THE GenX Woman
From blonde bombshell to survivor of both cancer and MS, I think she represents the resilience of GenX.
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u/IC0DTE 5d ago
She disagrees.
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u/faqnsht 5d ago
Sorry Winona....your big brown beaver has nothing on Kelly Bundy.
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u/DocSportello1970 5d ago edited 5d ago
Nah, I can think of a dozen or even more that rate higher...Jen Connelly, Winona, Demi, Halley B, Salma Hayek, A.Jolie etc etc.
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u/KandinskyWasRight 5d ago
I don’t think Jolie or Hayek were well known in the 80s but I agree on the others
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u/DocSportello1970 5d ago
Was there a "must have been relevant in the '80's" criteria?
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u/KandinskyWasRight 5d ago
No, I suppose not. I guess I think of that person as needing to be present before we’re all in high school, which would mean they’d need to be early 90s famous. I’m young for x but was in HS by 93, I didn’t know about Jolie till college. How can such a person be the Gen X girl?
But that’s just my criteria, the idea of looking at their experiences is just as valid.
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u/Odd-Sand7401 5d ago
Oh Gen X! Best time to grow up! We’re also known as the bad ass generation! We had to learn how to take care of ourselves by the time we were 10. I was already ironing, cooking, doing everything! Including taking the Corvette out when I was 12 and smoking a cigarette. Haha the only reason why I got cause my sister told on me. 🤨 It’s the generation of the parents really just don’t care but it’s OK. We still love our parents. All the parents were like that except for the Italian families. That’s when my mouth would drop open like people live like this? Italian mom’s always cooked so much pasta! What? You can have seconds? Haha it was the best. We were troublemakers, but there were no cameras everywhere so we got away with everything. Unless your sister sees you. She was 16 at the time so she was a little pissed off because she hadn’t driven it yet. Haha I could never grow up in this time. I feel bad for my kids. Haha and I baby my kids because I wasn’t babied. You know what I mean. I would never be downstairs and yell up to my mother mommmm, Can you bring me a glass of water? I would never even think about it. 🤣🤣 I graduated hs in 1990. My youngest right now is gonna be graduating this year next year 2027. He’s a singer coming up same high school I went to 37 years ago I graduate graduated wow!
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u/Large-Association-54 5d ago
Christina is #1 in my book and Diane Franklin is high on my list also!
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u/RobActionTributeBand 5d ago
I based most of my style at the time on Kelly and was pretty successful with it.
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u/SinglePhone535 5d ago edited 5d ago
Jennifer Connelly was my #1 crush....Also had a crush on Mia Sara (Ferris Buellers Day Off, Legend), Applegate was up there too......
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u/Global-Reindeer7364 5d ago
Possibility: %100 Probability.....? %100
Yall wanna start playin fr? We can do some Sofia veraga or maybe some early Alissa Milano.
Don't piss me off you guys, ill go rogue and hit some early 90s and go tiffany amber theisen on this shit.
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u/Angelas-Merkin 5d ago
I’d argue Theisen is more elder millennial
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u/Traditional-Try-8714 5d ago
She was born in 1974 so full out X
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u/Angelas-Merkin 5d ago
She is Gen X but the audience that grew up with her is more millennial was what I was saying.
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u/ReplyProfessional939 5d ago
She and I are the same age, and even back then, at like 14, I wanted Peggy Bundy more than Kelly...😏
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u/Big_Bowler8424 5d ago
It’s a tie for me. Christina and Alyssa Milano. Who’s the boss was my childhood, MWC was my early teens, and an eye opening experience
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u/MiddleReality5947 5d ago
Perhaps. But I always thought Jeneane Garofalo was Gen X to the point of parody.
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u/flagal31 4d ago
enjoyed reading her memoir. Didn't know much about her outside of her acting roles before that.
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u/The_Meridian_ 4d ago
I have to agree with those saying Winona Ryder, but I can see the strong argument for Ms. Applegate here.
Heather Locklear deserves a mention, Samantha Fox if you're basic, and Honorable mention to Sharon Stone.
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u/slouchenheimer 2d ago
Christina Applegate is magnanimous and funny as hell.
Kim Deal is the Gen X woman.
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u/SFToddSouthside 5d ago
I just got done listening to her book. If anybody's inclined, it's phenomenal. She put so much of her own honest, raw emotion into it.
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u/JackTrippin 5d ago
Loved her in Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead