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said the show’s producers and writers called her into an office to “tell” her they were going to write an episode about her real-life weight gain.Fishel explained that at the time, her co-star Will Friedle, who played Eric Matthews on the TGIF staple, had also visibly gained weight. So, she says, the show decided to exploit his body for laughs as well.
“Will very much was like, ‘Oh, yeah. I’m totally fine with it.’ Just immediately. Which, I know now, he was very insecure, and it was really painful for him,” Fishel said. “And for me, it was more like, ‘Oh, wow.’ Like, I didn’t — no one had said anything to me about it. I had been aware that I had gained weight, but I was still, you know, I was a size 4.”
Topanga then tries to convince Eric that they should go on a diet together, as Eric stuffs his face with food.occurs toward the end, when Topanga has to explain to her husband Cory — and an entire room of people — that she’s not pregnant, just “fat.” The show then tries to spin the previous half hour’s worth of fatphobia into a lesson about unfair beauty standards.
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