Tracey Gold is opening up about a painful time in her life.

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 ...

While playing Carol Seaver on the Emmy-winning comedy series, Gold, 55, said “fat jokes” made about her character ultimately had a lasting impact on her real-life physical and mental health.

Gold, who was a teenager when she was cast as Carol Seaver on the ABC sitcom in 1985, opened up in a new episode of Let's Be Clear with Shannen Doherty about her time on Growing Pains and the ...

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.

Related: Demi Lovato's biggest revelations and reflections from Child Star documentary Gold played Carol Seaver, the teenage daughter of the late Alan Thicke's Dr. Jason Seaver and his wife, Maggie ...

She is survived by her daughters, Carol Williams (Charles Crouse) and Kathy Bleicher; her sister-in-law, Virginia Seaver; grandchildren Holly Hensley, Irvine Decker Williams IV, and Corie ...

Gold, who was a teenager when she was cast as Carol Seaver on the ABC sitcom in 1985, opened up in a new episode of Let's Be Clear with Shannen Doherty about her time on Growing Pains and the anorexia ...