'Boy Meets World' star slams 'Disney machine': 'Girls were treated like meat'

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"Boy Meets World" alum turned-adult film star Maitland Ward is opening up about the "issues" she experienced during her years on the hit 1990s sitcom.

The 46-year-old actress played Rachel McGuire during the ABC series' last two seasons from 1998 to 2000. In a new interview with Fox News Digital, she reflected on the culture of the time and the expectations that she felt were put on female Disney stars.  "You had to be virginal, but you also had to be sexual," Ward said.

She continued, "The issues mainly came from Disney, and that it wasn't so much with the cast members. It was more the whole Disney machine back then, especially back in the late '90s and early 2000s when the girls were treated like meat." Reps for Disney did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's requests for comment. "Even though there were issues with Disney and production and my character and relationships, I do remember it as an innocent time, though, with a cast that was very much family," Ward added. "And I mean that in all possible ways because it's like with family.

You fight with family, you have issues, but you still were connected. And I think a producer from the show told me no matter what, after all this time, we're always going to be connected in this.