'Facts of Life' star Lisa Whelchel says show sent her to 'fat farm' after weight gain
foxnews.comThroughout most of the ‘80s, Lisa Whelchel was known for playing the role of Blair Warner on TV’s "The Facts of Life." The character was known for being pretty, wealthy and a bit snobby, but behind the scenes, Welchel was just a teenager herself trying to get through those turbulent years while starring on a hit series.
She recently revealed she was sent to a "fat farm" for gaining weight during the show's breaks. Welchel revealed that a scale was kept on set to weigh the actresses, and on three separate occasions she was deemed too heavy and sent off to a camp to lose weight. "Obviously we're in a different time," she explained during an interview with People. "We've learned a lot.
We're a lot more body positive right now, which I'm grateful for. I mean, it's still an issue." "But certainly as a teenager [that] was a lot," she went on. "Though even back then, I understood it's a business.They hired me to play a certain character that looked a certain way.
And it was also really, really hard because I was going through puberty and my parents were going through a divorce and I was living in California and they were in Texas, so there was emotional eating involved.
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