Tracey Gold’s experience filming Growing Pains wasn’t always filled with laughs. While playing Carol Seaver on the Emmy-winning comedy series, Gold, 55, said “fat jokes” made about her character ...

Tracey Gold is getting candid about the body image struggles she experienced on the set of Growing Pains. Gold, who was a teenager when she was cast as Carol Seaver on the ABC sitcom in 1985, opened ...

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 up going to inpatient treatment for her eating ...