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.

So when the pediatrician whips out a growth chart and ranks baby's height and weight in percentiles ... "If a child's been nicely growing on the 30th percentile and you see a sudden upsurge ...

Tracey Gold is opening up about the difficult times she had growing up in the spotlight on the family sitcom Growing Pains. While guest ... powerless on the show as her character, Carol Seavers ...