‘Facts of Life’ star Nancy McKeon said ‘there was a lot’ of scrutiny over cast’s weight

"Facts of Life" prima Nancy McKeon is opening up astir the scrutiny she and her castmates experienced implicit their weight.

McKeon told the New York Post successful a caller interrogation "there was a lot" of speech astir the value of the cast, including Lisa Whelchel, Kim Fields and Mindy Cohn.

She didn’t specify what was said but told the outlet, "Each 1 of america had to woody with things successful our ain way."

The 58-year-old added that it was unusual for the cast’s value to beryllium "made a thing" due to the fact that the amusement was celebrated for dealing with teen issues, including eating disorders.

"Facts of Life" prima Nancy McKeon said she and her castmates, including Kim Fields, Mindy Cohn and Lisa Whelchecl, had "a lot" of speech astir their value hap connected set. (Getty Images)

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"When you deliberation astir the information you’re signaling somebody’s puberty from 14 to their aboriginal 20s, that period, there’s truthful overmuch development, there’s truthful galore things that you’re going through, it’s rather funny looking back, however would you not spell done each the things that everybody successful beingness has gone through?"

While she didn’t admit it, McKeon acknowledged it’s an unfortunate portion of the amusement industry.

"Each 1 of america had to woody with things successful our ain way."

"That’s wherefore it’s called amusement business, it’s a business, and they wanted what they wanted. But we’re besides quality beings and the information is everybody comes successful each shapes and sizes and everybody needs to beryllium represented."

McKeon said it was unfortunate that her and the different girls' value was a taxable of conversation, fixed that the amusement focused connected teen issues similar eating disorders. (NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images)

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She added, "There is nary 1 perfect [body]. There should beryllium an clasp of each body."

McKeon’s co-star, Lisa Whelchel, besides spoke astir the pressures she faced playing the pretty, affluent but a spot snobby Blair connected the series.

In 2023, Whelchel told People Magazine she was sent to a "fat farm" during filming breaks aft she gained weight.

Lisa Whelchel said she was sent to a "fat farm" during movie breaks aft she gained weight. (Getty Images)

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"Obviously, we're successful a antithetic time," she told the outlet. "We've learned a lot. We're a batch more body positive right now, which I'm grateful for. I mean, it's inactive an issue."

"But surely arsenic a teenager, [that] was a lot," she continued. 

And similar McKeon, she’s accepted it was a regrettable portion of the enactment of work she chose.

Whelchel, similar McKeon, acknowledged the absorption connected her value was an unfortunate broadside effect of moving successful Hollywood. (Paul Archuleta)

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"Though adjacent backmost then, I understood it's a business. They hired maine to play a definite quality that looked a definite way," she said. "And it was besides really, truly hard due to the fact that I was going done puberty and my parents were going done a divorce, and I was surviving successful California and they were successful Texas, truthful determination was affectional eating involved. All the things that are not atypical of teenage girls."

"But I deliberation everybody was doing the champion they could backmost then. And arsenic Maya Angelou said: 'When you cognize better, you bash better,'" Whelchel told the outlet.