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.

So when the fat jokes started, Gold said she had “no voice,” but she was able to “brush it off.” But during one summer break from the series, she gained weight. “And the ...

Her experience on Growing Pains ultimately fueled her battle with ... admitting she was “basically starving” all the time. The actress later went for inpatient treatment in 1992 after the ...

The oldest of five girls, the actress said she was told she was being ... Related: Alan Thicke dead: Tracey Gold remembers Growing Pains dad But Carol, as she saw it, was her.

The actress ended up at a doctor who put her ... I’ll never know.” When Growing Pains was canceled in 1992, Gold said she was in “the depth of my anorexia.” She ended up in inpatient ...

The producers were always bringing in “the beautiful actress of the week,” who ... but she couldn’t. Growing Pains was canceled in 1992 while she was in “the depth of my anorexia ...