"Facts of Life" according to producers, producers sent her to a "big farm" several times
Lisa Whelchel said she had been returned several times to try to lose weight.
The facts of life It was a show on adolescent girls in a boarding school, so it would be logical that the actors who play them could look like normal adolescents. According to SitCom stars in the 1980s, this was not always the case.Lisa Whelchel, who played Blair, shared that she had been sent to "Fat Farms" during her stay in the show to try to help her lose weight. The actor also thought about how she and her co-stars bodies were discussed on the cover ofThe facts of life, and how it made them feel.
Finally, explained Whelchel, those who made the show came and accepted their weight more, but there were several attempts to make him lose books before that. Read the rest to discover what the 59 -year -old actor remembers his time on the series.
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Lisa Whelchel said she had been sent to "big farms" because of her weight.
A "fatty farm" is essentially a weight loss camp to which people attend in order to decrease. In a joint interview forPeople with herFacts of life co-starMindy Cohn In 2013, Whelchel said thatThe producers sent it more than once.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
“The producers sent me in a lot of big farms! I would say: "I go to Texas on my break", and they would say: "Oh, no you don't have it. We bought you a ticket for the big farm! She recalls.
Cohn, who played Natalie, said it was "ridiculous" because Whelchel has "the most perfect genes of all time". Whelchel replied: "AW, thank you. They were trying to understand how to manage our changing bodies."
She also said that food on the set had changed.
In the same conversation, Whelchel said that she had noticed that the food provided on the set had changed at some point. "The craft services had all kinds of food, and it was delicious," she said. "Then one day, they replaced the donuts and the cookies with carrots and celery. No one on the set was never cruel. But I was just a young girl. It was difficult for my body to be acceptable."
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Finally, the show accepted the appearance of Whelchel.
In 2011, members of the distribution ofThe facts of life gatheredHello America And recalls the show. Whelchel shared that she had been sent to three "big farms", but she did not lose weight and the producers came to let her herself.
"I am so grateful that it turned out to be like that," she said (via theDaily mail). "I looked like a normal teenager. We looked like normal adolescent girls. You didn't have to be a size two."
Whelchel and Cohn both knew that their weight had spoken.
In the conversation withPeople, Cohn and Whelchel said they knew that their weight was a subject of discussion in the media. "Weight was always a problem at the time," said Cohn.
Whelchel added: "An everyday battle. Our bodies were a subject of conversation. There was no internet, but we knew what people said.Joan Rivers We called "the fats of life".
Cohn said that she had also undergone a problem involving her weight with the producers of the show. "The summer when I was 17 years old, my metabolism has changed. I became active. I came back from Hiatus - looking carefully, notice yourself - and said to me:" What are you arrived? You must resume this 56 -year -old "" shared shared weight. "I offended myself because Natalie was not defined as" the big girl ". The people from the outside defined her like that, but there were no big jokes about her in the series. ""
Cohn said that his mother told producers "that it doesn't happen" and that they recommended going to a school to see "what normal girls look like our age".
