Nicole Eggert On Leaving ‘Baywatch’: ‘I Was Happy To Be Set Free’ (VIDEO)

March 19, 2015
Los Angeles

In a heyday, “Baywatch” was a array characterized by a confidant red swimsuits, voluptuous stars, slow-motion beach using and thespian tract twists. It’s tough to suppose a uncover as anything else, though one of a actresses creatively suspicion she had sealed adult for a unequivocally opposite form of radio program.

Nicole Eggert

“I suspicion we was going to be doing a high propagandize show, arrange of like ‘90210’ meets a beach,” she tells “Oprah: Where Are They Now?”

Eggert’s arrogance altered a impulse she saw associate “Baywatch” star Pamela Anderson.

“I saw myself some-more as… a hoyden jaunty one. And when we saw Pam come out of a trailer, she came out like Barbie!” Eggert says. “I was like, ‘Oh, no. One of us is really

nicole eggert and pamela anderson from baywatch

She can giggle about it now, though during a time, Eggert admits to feeling a small out of place among her curvier colleagues. “I was on set during a beach with these girls walking around with these outrageous bust and these ideal bodies,” she says. “I was like, ‘I demeanour like a boy. we demeanour like a male from a top.'”

So, Eggert motionless to get breast implants, that shortly sparked rumors that she did so during a ask of “Baywatch” producers. It’s a explain she has always denied.

“I did a breast implants on my own. That was all me. They never asked me to do that,” she says. “A year later, we had them reduced utterly significantly.”

One fact of “Baywatch” actors’ bodies was referenced in their contracts, however. “[There] was a proviso in a agreement that states we can’t go adult or down 5 pounds,” Eggert says. “I was 19 years old; my weight wasn’t fluctuating. we didn’t even work out.”

Many of a show’s stars, like Anderson, were noticed as sex symbols, though Eggert says she never saw herself in that light. Instead, it was a opposite tag that she felt was mostly — and foul — given.

“I felt some-more of a repercussions of being called a ‘bimbo,’ that worried me since I’m not

Eggert was so worried by this impact that she wanted to quit “Baywatch” before it had finished a second season. “I had asked to be let go from my contract. The uncover was doing so well, they were saying, ‘Absolutely not,'” she recalls. “They kind of struck a understanding with me. They said, ‘If you’re unequivocally that unhappy, finish Season 2 and if you’re still miserable, afterwards we’ll let we out of your contracts.'”

The deteriorate wrapped, and Eggert still wanted out. She was expelled from her contracts and now says that felt a weight was carried with her departure.

“I was happy to be set free,” she says.

Eggert’s latest gig:Driving and handling a mobile ice cream shop

“Oprah: Where Are They Now?”

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