During a recent episode of Danielle Fishel's podcast Pod Meets World with cohosts and former Boy Meets World costars Rider Strong and Will Friedle, Fishel talked about becoming “an object of desire at such a young age”
She used to believe that she was engaging in peer-to-peer interactions back in the day.
“As a kid, I always wanted to be older. I always wanted to be an adult. I wanted to be seen as an adult,” Fishel said. “So getting adult male attention as a teenage girl felt like — I didn’t think of it as being creepy or weird. I felt like it was validation that I was mature and I was an adult and I was capable and that they were seeing me the way I was, not for the number on a page. And in hindsight, that is absolutely wrong.
Now, at 43, Fishel realizes ” I should not have been outwardly talked about at 14, 15, 16 years old. And I was, even directlyShe continued, “I had people tell me they had my 18th birthday on their calendar. “I had a male executive — I did a calendar at 16 — and he specifically told me he had a Even that salacious remark didn’t phase her, “because we are peers, and this is how you relate to peers.
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