Later season of Facts Of Life

Edna's Edibles were full of trans fat.

I noticed they all were wearing really long boxy shirts and jackets then to cover their weight

Were they though, or was it the gigantic 80s robes and boxy blazers with shoulder pads? A woman would have to have been anorexic not to look chubby in the 80s.

Not all of them!

I recently saw them in a Down Under special and they are running around with long sweaters to cover their bulk while others around them are in beachwear and bathing suits.

They were stress eating because they missed Mrs. Garrett when she got married and left

Part of it was the abominable matronly '80s wardrobe choices; the other part was craft services.

Didn't Mindy Cohn enjoy dancing in her off hours so much that she lost weight, and wardrobe had to dress her to look heavier?

I remember Tracey Ullman on Letterman saying "those Facts of Life girls have gotten so big! They're going to crash through the ceiling!" No one would make a joke like that today on a talk show.

If Cloros Leachman didn’t have a long, skinny neck and a hollow face, you’d probably think based on her attire that she was overweight. It was just the 80s.

Although a combination of always wearing clothes with so much literal wiggle room and the 1980s wisdom of avoiding all fat and eating all carbs and tons of sugar (remember Snackwell’s?!) to drop those extra pounds did herd much of the country into Fatland, USA in the 80s.

Consider that Tracey Gold was literally starving herself to death from anorexia and yet this sweater made her look like a size 16.

She’s all bones under this bundle of wool, and yet she may as well have a pear-shaped flabby body and giant saddlebags.

It was the 80s.

The porducers of Full House dressed Candace Cameron like this and then told her she looks fat and ordered her to lose weight. She could have been a size four or a size 20 under all that material and she would have looked overweight no matter what her actual body looked like.

I've fallen down the Facts rabbit hole.

Great blog.

They were a little heavier in the middle years, but think they had all lost weight by the end of the series.

Joan Rivers called them The Fats of Life at one of the Emmy Awards. And yes, Mindy Cohn was actually losing weight during this time. Ford had to drop her since she was no longer able to model car covers.

I thought they all looked like normal teens which is what they were supposed to be. Lisa Whelchel was gorgeous and, based on recent pics I've seen, she hasn't changed much.

I hate the later season(s) theme song. They destroyed it.

Carbs?

There was something about the blush in the 1980s that made a lot of women look like they had big chubby cheeks, even though the blush was supposed to give the illusion of contouring.

I used to call the show, "The Facts of Fat."

Mrs. G was actually the Eastland dietician for awhile. Not sure how no one noticed the students were plumping up under her regimen.

Mrs G’s diet plan was to make everyone bigger to make her look smaller.

Sigh. I miss all that fabric. Clothes are so tight and unforgiving now.

Carry on.

R23 the funny thing is that boys/young men wore form-fitting clothes (even skintight in some cases) in the '80s. It was in the '90s that they began to don the baggy pants, oversized shirts look. I recently watched a mid-'90s episode of BOY MEETS WORLD and they were practically drowning in those clothes!

So many comments blaming the clothes when the fact of the matter is they all blipped out like a quartet of Macy’s floats. This has been widely documented, and all four of them have spoken about it many, many times.

They weren't 15 year old teenagers anymore OP.