Boy Meets World alum Danielle Fishel got candid about the harrowing experience of being sexualized as a teenager — and how it’s affected her personal relationships over the years. “I’ve always been able to hold a conversation with an adult.
I can look you in the eye. I’ve always been those things,” Fishel, 42, said during a June episode of her “Pod Meets World” podcast. “But in a romantic, male-gaze sense, I should not have been outwardly talked about at 14, 15, 16 years old.
And I was, even directly to me.” The former child star — who portrayed Topanga Lawrence on the ABC sitcom from 1993 to 2000 — revealed that people would often have her “18th birthday on their calendar.” She recalled that one male studio executive in particular “specifically told me he had a certain calendar month in his bedroom” from a photoshoot she had done at age 16.
In order to view the video, please allow Manage Cookies “Getting adult male attention as a teenage girl, I didn’t think of it as creepy or weird,” she confessed. “I felt like it was validation that I was mature.
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