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.

Gold played Carol Seaver, the teenage daughter of the late Alan Thicke's Dr. Jason Seaver and his wife, Maggie (Joanna Kerns ... that the weight was just from growing up. The oldest of five ...

As her character Carol Seaver on television's, "Growing Pains" dealt with the ... Gold says it was her TV mother, Joanna Kerns, who would ultimately look out for her, pressuring the crew to ...