trustysidekick t1_j27n123 wrote on December 30, 2022 at 5:46 AM

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Were any of the girls in Facts of life actually kids? They all seemed grown up to me when I was watching it as a kid in the 80sz

Medoxor t1_j286wqi wrote on December 30, 2022 at 9:50 AM

>Were any of the girls in Facts of life actually kids? They all seemed grown up to me when I was watching it as a kid in the 80sz

Yes, they were. Lisa Whelchel was 16 that first season. Nancy McKeon was 14 when she started the show. Mindy Cohn was 13 when she started. Kim was 10. They grew up on the show. Mindy points out a lot how she gets to see her puberty years on TV. The Facts of Life was NBC's first longest running sitcom of the 80's. It lasted 9 years.