\u201cHey Dude.. The \u201990s Called\u201d podcast<\/a>. \u201cIt was a blessing to be on a show that\u2019s that popular but it was very limiting as a teenager when you\u2019re 18.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cEverywhere I went it was, \u2018Hey aren\u2019t you that girl you know that played Winnie? Aren\u2019t you that girl from TV?’\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWonder Years\u201d alum Danica Mckellar revealed she left Hollywood after finding fame as a child actress due to feeling \u201cvery limited\u201d after the ABC show ended in 1993. Hey Dude\u2026 The 90s Called!\/YouTube<\/p>\n
\u201cI needed to figure out who else I was besides Winnie Cooper,\u201d McKellar said. \u00a9ABC\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n
She continued, \u201cIt\u2019s like constant, you\u2019re trying to figure out who you are as a teenager and everyone else is telling you who you are.\u201d<\/p>\n
McKellar, 50, also admitted feeling \u201cinsecure\u201d after her time on the ABC series ended.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have a lot of success early on, and then you don\u2019t have that anymore, and you\u2019re like, who who am I now? Where do I get my validation?\u201d she reflected. \u201cI had to get away from it and find out who else I was.\u201d <\/p>\n
The thought led her to enroll in classes at UCLA. <\/p>\n
After the show, McKellar admitted feeling \u201cinsecure\u201d due to her early success.<\/p>\n
The thought propelled her to enroll in classes at UCLA, where she pursued a mathematics degree and graduated with honors. \u00a9Triumph Releasing\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n
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\u201cI took all my makeup off and I would wear a backpack and a T-shirt and throw my hair in a ponytail,\u201d she shared.<\/p>\n
McKellar went on to explain how she fell in love with her higher education experience after she got a good score on one of her calculus tests, which pushed her into a different spotlight as her fellow classmates recognized her intellectual skills instead of her acting credits. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt was the greatest feeling\u2026 It was just me,\u201d she explained. \u201cIt had nothing to do with the superficiality of Hollywood or all the great writers or the sound design and all the things they did to make Winnie Cooper [into] Winnie Cooper. It was just me and my brain who did this.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
After she graduated from UCLA with honors, she worked as a mathematician and started her own website where she would give math advice to students.<\/p>\n
After building a career as a mathematician, she later decided to return to acting because she missed having a \u201cconnection with people.\u201d Variety via Getty Images<\/p>\n
McKellar went on to star in a number of Lifetime and Hallmark films as well as the show \u201cWest Wing.\u201d Gabriel Hennessey<\/p>\n
McKellar later decided to return to acting because she missed having a \u201cconnection with people,\u201d and went on to star in a number of Lifetime and Hallmark films. She also starred on the show \u201cWest Wing.\u201d <\/p>\n
She tied the knot with composer Mike Verta in 2009 and together, they welcomed a son in 2010, Though, they called it quits two years later.<\/p>\n
She went on to wed Los Angeles attorney Scott Sveslosky in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWonder Years\u201d star Danica McKellar revealed she traded being \u201cAmerica\u2019s Sweetheart\u201d for a life of obscurity due to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":257795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[568,185,174,172,135531,171,5158,29143,173,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-257794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-actors","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-celebrity-interviews","11":"tag-celebrity-news","12":"tag-child-stars","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-the-wonder-years","16":"tag-tv","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115274302477896689","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}