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.

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 ...

Gold explained Monday how the show's writing hurt her to the point that she suffered from eating disorders, including ...

Her experience on Growing Pains ultimately fueled her battle with ... admitting she was “basically starving” all the time. The actress later went for inpatient treatment in 1992 after the ...

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 ...

The actress ended up at a doctor who put her ... I'll never know.” When Growing Pains was canceled in 1992, Gold said she was in “the depth of my anorexia.” She ended up in inpatient ...