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.

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I always say this when I talk to kids who want to be child actors ... You're talking about me, Tracey Gold. And now I have to be in front of an audience that's laughing at me and my body and ...