Gold was a guest host on the late Shannen Doherty’s podcast.
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Tracey Gold is looking back on some of her tougher times on the set ofGrowing Pains.
And then the jokes accelerated when I came back and became meaner.
Tracey Gold in 2018.Credit:Bobby Bank/Getty
Instead of one joke, there were two jokes, there were three jokes."
So Gold spoke up.
“I finally tried to find my voice and go to them.
Tracey Gold was on ‘Growing Pains’ from 1985 to 1992.ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty
I had never had that problem before.”
She realizes now that the weight was just from growing up.
“‘Could you take out that joke?’
But Carol, as she saw it, was her.
Eventually, the show directly requested that Gold lose weight.
So she began hitting the gym more and eventually adopted a diet of just 500 calories per day.
After that, she was complimented on her looks non-stop, so Gold kept it up.
“You will not get that from me.
I became resolute, and I’m really stubborn I’m a Taurus.
I became resolute in not letting that happen, and I stayed on the diet.”
The show then wanted her to gain weight.
She ended up in an inpatient treatment in 1992, the same year the show ended.
By February of that year, she wason the cover of PEOPLEtalking about her disease.
