Growing up with TV created awkward moments for Full houseis Andrea Barber.
In the latest episode of their podcast How rude, Tanneritos!Barber, 47, and co-host Jodie Sweetin, 42, unpacked one such moment from the third season of the beloved ABC sitcom.
As the pair discussed, the episode, “Back to School Blues,” finds Barber and Candace Cameron Bure’s characters, Kimmy Gibbler and DJ Tanner, starting elementary school and struggling to fit in with their older, more popular peers. So the best friends among the youth decide to treat themselves to an ’80s makeover, complete with teased hair, lots of make-up, fishnet stockings and mini dresses fit for a Whitesnake video.
Barbera’s character, however, takes it a step further by lining her bra.
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Andrea Barber and Candace Cameron Bure in ‘Full House’ in 1989.
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“I was dying watching it,” Sweetin said on the podcast. “Funny. Funny. What do you think about it today?”
Barber replied that she was “depressed.”
“This is a fundamental memory,” Barber continued. “I was pretty flat at that age, which is no big deal. This is very normal. But then when they wanted – like okay, they wanted me to wear fake ones, but then, of course, the joke has to work. So I had producers coming to me between takes and giving notes to wardrobe saying, ‘We need a lot more. We need a bigger one.’ And it was horrible to have men looking at my tits.”
Sweetin noted that she had issues with the way Barber and Bure, who were both 13 when the episode aired, were dressed when she rewatched the scene.
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Andrea Barber and Candace Cameron Bure in ‘Full House’ in 1989.
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“It’s a story that’s not, like, made up. This is exactly what children do. My kids do that. You know, every generation goes through it differently, like, oh, it’s a miniskirt, it’s a crop top, it’s, you know, baggy pants and whatever. Like, that’s always something they’re trying to do,” said the mom of two. “But, yeah, I definitely like it, when I was watching that scene, all I could think was, ‘Oh my God.’ Because, you know, like, it’s just highlighting something that you know is already very obvious in your real life, that you have to deal with now outside of the joke that you’re doing on the show.”
“A joke is funny in a scene, but then after that scene, you have to go and exist in the world with everyone who saw that joke,” Sweetin continued. “What when you grew up, you don’t care. When you’re a kid, oh my god.”
Barber said she was “beet red” while re-watching the episode and reiterated how embarrassed she was that the show’s producers discussed her breast size.
“I don’t think we needed it,” she said of the padding. “I think they got the point with fishnets and tight skirts and crazy, you know, wild teased hair. I think that was enough. We didn’t even need fakes.”
“I keep thinking, ‘What if that was my daughter, my 13-year-old, out there with men talking about her bust size?’ Barbir continued. “I would have a problem with that if I were the mom.”
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Andrea Barber 2019.
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“I’m good now. I didn’t have any scars from it,” she added. But, she said, “I would say, ‘People, this is — change the joke.’ There’s a different – there’s a better joke.’ ”
Sweetin noted that she doesn’t think the scene was intentionally inappropriate. “It was a very normal story about things that we all knew that, you know, kids at this age go through,” she explained. “But, yeah, definitely when I look back on it now, you go, ‘I don’t know if I like it.’ ”
“No,” agreed Barber. “I didn’t like it. And that memory stayed in my memory.”
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