'Growing Pains' star Tracey Gold says TV mom Joanna Kerns helped save her life during anorexia battle
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.
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Tracey Gold Says ‘Growing Pains’ Writers Included More Fat Jokes In The Show After She Gained Weight: “It Was Hurting Me”
Her experience on Growing Pains ultimately fueled her battle with ... But the positive attention she received on set after inspired her to keep going. “Something hit me and I was like ...
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Tracey Gold Says ‘Fat Jokes’ on ‘Growing Pains’ Fueled Her Anorexia: ‘I Was Sensitive to It’
When Growing Pains was canceled in 1992 ... “I was told to keep your mouth shut and be a good girl on a set,” she said. “But finding my voice with the anorexia was the really big thing.” ...
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Tracey Gold says she told “Growing Pains” writers fat jokes about her character were 'hurting my feelings'
Related: Alan Thicke dead: Tracey Gold remembers Growing Pains dad But Carol, as she saw it, was her. And she'd have to stand in front of a live studio audience and have those things said to her.
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'Growing Pains' star Tracey Gold says TV mom Joanna Kerns helped save her life during anorexia battle
The set did have an element of misogyny to it ... as an actress." "I loved ‘Growing Pains’ and I have the best memories of ‘Growing Pains’ but that was, you know, a hard time for me.