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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Taking to Instagram on Saturday after the show aired, Carol shared a clip of her standing in front of the TV with a box over her head. In the background, the episode of The Masked Singer was on ...