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.

You're talking about me, Tracey Gold. And now I have to be in front ... me because he knew I was sick," she said of her husband Roby Marshall, whom she was introduced to by Kerns.

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 ... She stayed on the diet, which had her “basically starving” all the time. Her then-boyfriend, now-husband Roby ...

When her character became the butt of fat jokes and producers asked her to lose weight, she went on a highly restrictive diet, she says Gold ended ... now-husband Roby Marshall, was deeply ...