Tracey Gold on Hollywood's Weight Obsession

Tracey Gold, who once battled with anorexia, confesses she will get worried when she sees stars on hit shows diminishing, but she does not put the blame exclusively on Hollywood.The actress told"The Hollywood Reporter" the cause of the issue is more common than simply the entertainment industry."I usually consider the first season of the Television show and find out an actress one of the ways, after which within the second season the thing is her ten pounds lighter -- it is a cycle," Gold stated. "I believe there's a continuing problem -- not only Hollywood, but additionally society. It is a common problem across the nation.InchPrecious metal, who battled using the disease within the the nineteen nineties, is wishing to really make a difference within the lives of ladies fighting existence-threatening conditions like anorexia and bulimia in Lifetime's new unscripted series "Depriving Secrets With Tracey Gold," which premieres at 10 pm. Friday. Each hourlong episode will feature Gold discussing her very own encounters along with other ladies and using a team of specialists to assist them to obtain the treatment they require.The actress grew to become anorexic at 19, after finding fame as Carol Seaver around the hit sitcom "Growing Pains," also it nearly required her existence by age 22. But she thinks she'd have battled with anorexia even when she had not experienced the general public eye.Area of the problem today, she stated, is the fact that you will find more pressure on celebs now as the amount of tabloids and media shops covering celebs is continuing to grow, as well as all of the online writers and places where fans can publish critical comments for the world to determine, like Twitter."It's people behind some type of computer, without ever needing to show their face, who're perpetuating much more of a necessity to suit a particular mold," she stated. "We reside in age the web, the ones know what you want and become really nasty."That's area of the reason she praises youthful stars like Demi Lovato and Mary-Kate Olsen because of not being afraid to find treatment understanding that their every move is chronicled within the tabloids. She also applauds Miley Cyrus, who lately stuck as much as people critical of Lovato after she made an appearance to achieve a few pounds within the wake of her treatment.Simultaneously, Gold tries to not judge when she notices an actress slimming down since she does not know what's really happening.InchIt is an easy factor the media loves to do in order to an actress when she manages to lose weight would be to slap around the title of anorexia, but that is a harmful spot to go," Gold stated. "I'm not sure anyone's personal struggle, and to create a quick judgment trivializes the real character of the items anorexia is really.InchPrecious metal developed the idea for "Depriving Secrets" because she felt like eating disorders were not being spoken about around they must be. After approaching using the idea, she pitched it to GRB Entertainment (A&E's "Intervention"), who then required it to Lifetime (she also can serve as a professional producer on the program).She's wishing to reveal the problem by addressing stereotypes and altering the "glamorized view" from the disorders. She also hopes the six-episode series spurs other women battling in the same situation to find help."Let me reveal how much of an eating disorders appears like,Inch Gold stated. "We obtain inside with real women to exhibit it's not really a glamorous factor. This is an separating, lonely, hard, raw disease. It isn't skinny women on the red-colored carpet this is an all-consuming factor in existence where things are falling lower who are around you.InchPrecious metal, who performed Carol Seaver on "Growing Pains" for seven years, where her character was the brunt of body fat jokes from her brother (performed by Kirk Cameron). She later performed the title role within the TV movie "For that Passion for Nancy," which dedicated to the primary character's have a problem with a serious eating disorders.For her "Growing Pains" castmates, she stated she still keeps in contact with them through various reunion occasions they attend.And how about Leonardo DiCaprio, whoplayed a destitute boy drawn in through the Seaver family within the final season?"I've got a great bondage with Leo," she stated. "He's busy, however i determine if he saw me, he'd produce a large hug. He saw my hubby in a Opposing team and came accumulating to him."She also recalls a youthful Robin Thicke -- boy of her TV father, Alan Thicke -- chilling out around the set."He's super gifted, and that i couldn't be more happy for his success," she stated from the singer.But Gold is really a success story herself: She's now married with four sons and stated she's "retrieved" from her eating disorders. Getting pregnant together with her first child assisted, as she recognized her nutritional habits weren't just affecting her alone any longer.Now, "Time passes through my existence and I am not worrying about food," she stated. "It does not control my day. But I am wise enough to understand at the back of my thoughts, I must be conscious to not skip meals when I am stressed. I am not in treatment any longer and that i try eating healthy." The Hollywood Reporter