Christina Applegate has some sartorial advice for single women.
“If you go on a first date with a guy and you don’t like his shoes, run,” the actress writes in her newly released memoir, “You With the Sad Eyes,” out now.
“Shoes are a telltale sign of whether or not a relationship will last.”
Though she didn’t mention him by name, the “Married with Children” alum, 54, was referring to her first husband, “That Thing You Do!” star Johnathon Schaech, 56, whom she married in 2001.
“For our first date, he had shown up in boots, but not even cowboy boots. I think that they were supposed to look like a cowboy boot, but they missed the mark by a wide margin,” she recalls in the book.
“The whole time during that dinner, I remember thinking, ‘Those shoes are so bad. Bad shoes, bad shoes, bad shoes, bad shoes.’”
Applegate admitted that she even had doubts about the relationship while walking down the aisle, but talked herself into believing she was self-sabotaging — as Schaech checked off so many boxes.
“My future husband had more than $3.50 in his bank account and didn’t rely on me monetarily,” the “Bad Moms” star writes.
“Handsome fella. He liked sports, so Dad was on board … he disappointed no one, except maybe me.”
Not surprisingly, the marriage did not last, and the two ultimately called it quits in 2007.
Applegate is now happily married to Dutch musician Martyn LeNoble. They said “I do” in 2013 and share one child: a daughter named Sadie.
Schaech, meanwhile, was briefly married to country singer Jana Kramer before tying the knot to Julie Solomon in 2013. They share two kids: a son and a daughter.
Throughout Applegate’s new book, she also delves into her professional life, sharing that she snagged her role in “Anchorman” by improvising during her audition with Will Ferrell.
She recalled saying to her co-star during the audition, “Last night when we were together, I thought it was just your finger, but actually, it was your d–k.”
Both Ferrell and director Adam McKay broke into gales of laughter, and she got the gig.
According to Applegate, the studio originally “lowballed” her, so she passed.
But both McKay and Ferrell called her and told her, “We want you so so badly that we are going to take some of our salaries to pay you.”
Applegate was touched by the gesture and accepted the role. The movie was initially a flop, but later became a massive hit, earning the cast “enormous” checks from residuals.
