Actress Tracey Gold, who starred as Carol Seaver on "Growing Pains," talks about her extreme eating disorder accelerated by fat jokes made on the show, and how her TV mom advocated for her health.

Tracey Gold’s experience filming Growing Pains wasn’t always filled with laughs. While playing Carol Seaver on the Emmy-winning comedy series, Gold, 55, said “fat jokes” made about her ...

Tracey Gold is opening up about the difficult times she had growing up in the spotlight on the family sitcom Growing Pains ... on the show as her character, Carol Seavers, was often the subject ...

Related: Demi Lovato's biggest revelations and reflections from Child Star documentary Gold played Carol Seaver, the teenage daughter of ... Content via Getty Tracey Gold was on 'Growing Pains' from ...

Tracey Gold is getting candid about the body image struggles she experienced on the set of Growing Pains. Gold, who was a teenager when she was cast as Carol Seaver on the ABC sitcom in 1985 ...

“They started to have Mike Seaver make fat jokes about Carol ... Her weight loss was also reflected in the plot of Growing Pains as Carol became homecoming queen, and it put her in a “tailspin.” ...