Boy Meets World Actress Turned Porn Star Maitland Ward Says Topanga 'Hates' Her IRL!
03.09.2022 - 04:37
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Another Boy Meets World actor who had trouble with co-stars?!
A couple years after Trina McGee blasted “three acting colleagues” for racism on the set of the TGIF favorite, co-star Maitland Ward is starting to air her grievances.
It turns out the actress who played Rachel McGuire on the beloved coming-of-age sitcom in the late ’90s didn’t always have the best time filming the Disney Channel show. And things are still weird with one particular castmate: Danielle Fishel, the one and only Topanga.
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Maitland spoke to TooFab on Thursday about her upcoming memoir Rated X: How Porn Liberated Me from Hollywood. Yes, in case you forgot, she’s the Disney star who found a very successful career — award-winning even — in the adult industry.
Funny enough, it’s the experience she’s gotten from her new job that’s changed her perspective on the one she fretted over so much two decades ago. She explained she had rewatched some of Boy Meets World to refresh her memory for the book, in which she opens up about her experience behind the scenes. Seeing some of that content, she said, “was the most mind-blowing thing,” — because she finally realized “how sexualized” she was!
Maitland was a 21-year-old just starting out, so — like many children’s show actresses who in recent years have been re-evaluating how they were used — she didn’t think too hard about the things she was being asked to do at the time. For instance:
Wow! We cannot blame her for making these leaps considering what’s come out about other “family show” creators lately. You be the judge on that one, we guess!
She continued:
In particular she means she was chastised for looking too sexy during her off