One of the actresses who starred in Growing Pains in the 1980s and early 1990s looked nearly unrecognizable when a photographer saw her out and about in Southern California earlier this week.
Tracey Gold was spotted carrying a take-out food container after enjoying a meal with her husband, Roby Marshall, in Los Angeles on Feb. 17, according to The Daily Mail.
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Photos obtained by the British tabloid and later published on Saturday, Feb. 22, showed the 55-year-old actress wearing black pants and a white sweatshirt that featured a black and red design across the front. She completed the outfit with a pair of black and white sneakers, and had her gray hair pulled back in a ponytail. The former teen star was wearing a pair of dark sunglasses to protect her eyes and also wore a pair of glasses on a chain around her neck.
Marshall was also dressed casually in a pair of black sweatpants, a loose gray long-sleeved shirt and a pair of brown boots. Like his wife, Marshall wore a pair of dark sunglasses.
The two were photographed walking out of a restaurant, with the Beyond Witch Mountain actress carrying a brown paper bag and a take-out container in her left hand.
See the photos here.
Gold starred on Growing Pains throughout the popular ABC show’s seven-season run from 1985 through 1992. She played Carol Seaver, the oldest daughter of Dr. Jason and Maggie Seaver, who were played by Alan Thicke and Joanna Kerns, respectively.
In the decades since her appearance on the beloved family sitcom, Gold has spoken openly about facing body image struggles as a young actress. During a podcast appearance earlier this year, Gold recalled that the show’s writers began to have her onscreen brother Mike, who was played by Kirk Cameron, “make fat jokes” about her character.
Those jokes intensified when she returned from a filming break and had gained weight, according to Gold. “You’re not talking just about Carol anymore. You’re talking about me, Tracey Gold,” she said of the jokes written into the show. “And now I have to be in front of an audience that’s laughing at me and my body and my weight, and it became tough.”
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