Walls

MEMORANDUM ***

Plaintiff-Appellant Diane M. Walls appeals the district court’s ruling affirming the ALJ’s determination that she is not entitled to disability benefits. Because the parties are familiar with the facts, we do not recite them here except as necessary to explain our decision. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 , and we affirm.

We review the district court’s decision affirming the ALJ de novo, and we will uphold a denial of benefits if the ALJ “applied the correct legal standards and substantial evidence supports the decision.” See Stout v. Comm’r, 454 F.3d 1050, 1052 (9th Cir.2006) (citation omitted).

Before the ALJ, Walls bore the burden of proving “that she was either pex'manently disabled or subject to a condition which became so severe as to disable her prior to the date upon which her disability insured status expire[d],” September 30, 1981. *571 Johnson v. Shalala, 60 F.3d 1428 , 1432 (9th Cir.1995) (citations omitted). Walls was also required to show that her disability “existed continuously since some time on or before” September 30, 1981 until she filed for disability benefits in April of 1999, Flaten v. Sec’y of Health & Human Servs., 44 F.3d…