Printable Biography of Tracey Gold

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Tracey Gold is a working actress well known to audiences throughout the world. Since the age of four she has appeared in feature films, television series and movies-of-the-week. As a teenager she co-starred in the popular sitcom "Growing Pains" for seven years, playing wholesome, brainy Carol Seaver in a picture-perfect eighties American family. Gold was a pretty and professional young star with a limitless future. But behind the smiles she was experiencing her own very personal "growing pains:" she was failing her subjects in school, eventually being diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder. But more alarmingly, she was fighting the battle of her life against anorexia nervosa. .

Ten years have passed since photos of a shockingly think Gold faced us from the cover of one of People magazine's best-selling issues ever. Today, an older and wiser Gold is ready to share her story.

In her autobiography entitled Room to Grow: An Appetite for Life, Gold shares a moving account of a trip to hell and back. It is a journey of self-discovery and a chronicle of the very difficult lessons she learned about coping in a society where emaciation is the ultimate ideal. Through her book, and her speeches with audiences across the country, Gold shares her personal experiences, battles and hard-earned knowledge, hoping to serve as a source of comfort and encouragement for anyone whose life has been touched by eating disorders.