As her character Carol Seaver on television's, "Growing Pains" dealt with the perils of adolescence, actress Tracey Gold struggled with her own problem: a debilitating eating disorder. The studio ...

Business owner Jason Corman says it takes a half hour to go a mile down the road most afternoons and evenings, leading to ...

Tracey Gold is opening up about the difficult times she had growing up in the spotlight on the family sitcom Growing Pains. While guest hosting the late Shannen Doherty‘s Let’s Be Clear ...

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 ...

Growing Pains was canceled in 1992 while she was in “the depth of my anorexia,” and Gold ended up in inpatient treatment. In 1992, she appeared on the cover of PEOPLE talking about her eating ...

Tracey Gold was cast as Carol Seaver on Growing Pains as a teenager When her character became the butt of fat jokes and producers asked her to lose weight, she went on a highly restrictive diet, she ...

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.

Tracey Gold is looking back on some of her tougher times on the set of Growing Pains. Gold explained Monday how the show's writing hurt her to the point that she suffered from eating disorders, ...

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