Gabrielle Carteris said on the podcast “I Choose Me”, hosted by her former castmate Jennie Garth, that she chose not to show much of her body because she did not want “to be seen that way”.
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She said that at one point Aaron Spelling, the show’s executive producer, informed the cast that the actors would be wearing swimsuits during the summer.
“And I thought, ‘What does that mean?’ I refused to wear a swimsuit. I don’t know if you ever noticed, but I never wore a swimsuit,” recalled Gabrielle Carteris, who played Andrea Zuckerman.
Garth, who portrayed Kelly Taylor, remembered that her colleague’s character often appeared wearing “very short shorts” in beach scenes.
“I wore shorts or a bodysuit and shorts. I wore my jumpsuit and my tank top, but I refused to wear [swimsuits] because it made me furious,” she revealed.
“I mean, I had a nice little body back then, I think, but it made me furious that that was the conversation,” Gabrielle Carteris vented.
The successful 1990s series tells the story of teenagers’ lives into adulthood, following their dramas, joys, sorrows, and romances.
Carteris was older than her co-stars Garth, Tori Spelling and the late Shannen Doherty, who were teenagers at the time. The actress said she did not want to be objectified.
“I did a lot of commercials before doing 90210. I was very lucky to have a very good career in commercials. Back then, in commercials, you know, you could actually do something. I would never go to an audition wearing a swimsuit,” she said.
Despite the show’s success, which aired from 1990 to 2000, Gabrielle Carteris left the main cast in the sixth season.
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