Danielle Fishel now realizes how inappropriate some of the comments that were made to her during her teenage years were. During a recent episode of her podcast Pod Meets World with cohosts and former Boy Meets World costars Rider Strong and Will Friedle, Fishel talked about becoming “an object of desire at such a young age.” Fishel played Topanga Lawrence for seven seasons on the ABC show Boy Meets World, starting at age 12 in 1993, with the show ending in 2000.
She later reprised the Topanga role as an adult for its Disney Channel spin-off, Girl Meets World, from 2014 to 2017. She used to believe that she was engaging in peer-to-peer interactions back in the day. “As a kid, I always wanted to be older.
I always wanted to be an adult. I wanted to be seen as an adult,” Fishel said. “So getting adult male attention as a teenage girl felt like — I didn’t think of it as being creepy or weird.
I felt like it was validation that I was mature and I was an adult and I was capable and that they were seeing me the way I was, not for the number on a page.
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