Andrea Barber grew up on tv and is greatest recognized for her function as Kimmy Gibbler on the sitcom “Full Home,”which centered round widowed father Danny Tanner (Bob Saget), who asks his brother-in-law Jesse Katsopolis (John Stamos) and his greatest buddy Joey Gladstone (Dave Coulier) to assist increase his three daughters: D.J. (Candace Cameron Bure), Stephanie (Jodie Sweetin), and Michelle (Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, who shared the function).
Wanting again at filming, Andrea Barber, who was 13 on the time, recalled one time when the producers had requested her to “stuff” her bra to make her chest look bigger, which now leaves a bitter style in her mouth.
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‘Full Home’ Producers Informed Andrea Barber To Do This ‘Ridiculous’ Factor
On the newest episode of her podcast “How Impolite, Tanneritos!,” which she co-hosts with Jodie Sweetin, 42, opened up concerning the one time “Full Home” producers requested her to stuff her bra as she was “flat-chested.”
Within the episode “Again to College Blues,” Kimmy Gibbler (Barber) and D.J. Tanner (Candace Cameron Bure) begin junior excessive however discover it exhausting to slot in with the older crowd. Naturally, the 2 determined to offer themselves an enormous 80s makeover with an extreme quantity of make-up, mini attire, and fishnet stockings.
“I used to be dying once I watched that,” Sweetin, who portrayed Stephanie Tanner, stated on the podcast. “Hilarious. Ridiculous. What are your ideas on it at present?”
Barber then admitted that whereas she was “mortified” watching it again, that episode was nonetheless a “core reminiscence” for the actress.
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Andrea Barber Had To Stuff Her Bra
“I used to be fairly flat at that age, which isn’t an enormous deal. That is very regular,” Barber recalled. “However then after they wished to — like okay, they wished me to put on falsies, however then, in fact, the joke’s gotta work. So, I had, like, producers coming as much as me in between takes and giving notes to wardrobe saying, ‘We want it stuffed extra. We want it larger.’ And that was mortifying to have males taking a look at my boobs.”
Sweetin additionally admitted that watching that episode again and seeing how manufacturing dressed Bure and Barber’s characters was a bit unsettling as they have been solely 13 on the time.
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Jodie Sweetin Chimes In
“It’s a storyline that is not, like, made up. It’s precisely what youngsters do. My youngsters do it. You realize, each era goes by completely different, like, oh, it is a miniskirt, it is a crop high, it is a, you understand, dishevelled pants and no matter,” she stated. “Like, it is at all times one thing that they are making an attempt to do.”
“However, yeah, I undoubtedly like, once I watched that scene, that was all I may consider was like, ‘Oh my god.’ As a result of, you understand, like, it is simply declaring one thing that you understand is already very apparent in your actual life that now it’s important to take care of outdoors of the joke you are making on the present,” the actress added.
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Rewatching ‘Full Home’ Years Later
Sweetin continued, “The joke’s humorous within the scene, however then after that scene, it’s important to go and exist on this planet with everybody having seen that joke. Which while you’re an grownup, you do not care. While you’re a child, oh my god.”
The Kimmy Gibbler actress admitted she was “beat pink” when watching the episode again, recalling how the producers requested her to pad her bra to make her chest larger.
“I do not suppose we would have liked it,” she recalled of the padding. “I feel they acquired the purpose throughout with the fishnets and the tight skirts and the loopy, you understand, the wild teased hair. I feel that was sufficient. We did not want the falsies as nicely.”
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“I maintain considering, ‘What if it was my daughter, my 13-year-old, on the market and the place males are speaking concerning the dimension of her bust?’ ” Barber added. “I’d have an issue with that if I used to be the mother.”
Did The ‘Full Home’ Second Scar Andrea Barber?
Whereas she now disagrees with this, Barber stated she is not scarred by the second, however she does suppose the joke ought to have been modified.
“I am nice now. I wasn’t scarred by it,” she added, however “I would be like, ‘Guys, that is — change the joke. There is a completely different — there’s a greater joke on the market.’ ”
Sweetin then stated that she doesn’t suppose the scene was deliberately inappropriate because it “was a really regular storyline of stuff that all of us knew that.”
“However, yeah, undoubtedly trying again on it now, you are like, ‘I do not know that I like that,'” she continued as Barber stated she “did not love” that second and “that reminiscence has caught with” her.
