Tracey Gold

Tracey Gold who most people know for playing the role of Carol Seaver on the hit show, Growing Pains, was not initially cast. Only once the original actress did not test well with audiences did Gold get the part that she would hold for the show’s run of seven seasons.

Gold famously was outed for battling anorexia, something she was diagnosed with at the age of eleven. She starred in a TV movie called For The Love of Nancy, about a woman struggling with anorexia. Today, she continues to work as an actress, while often holding speaking engagements warning young women about eating disorders.