Andrea Barber Says ‘Full House’ Producers Told Her To ‘Stuff’ Her Bra

Andrea Barber grew up on tv and is finest recognized for her position as Kimmy Gibbler on the sitcom “Full House,”which centered round widowed father Danny Tanner (Bob Saget), who asks his brother-in-law Jesse Katsopolis (John Stamos) and his finest pal 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 position).

Trying 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.

On the most recent episode of her podcast “How Impolite, Tanneritos!,” which she co-hosts with Jodie Sweetin, 42, opened up in regards to the one time “Full Home” producers requested her to stuff her bra as she was “flat-chested.”

Within the episode “Again to Faculty Blues,” Kimmy Gibbler (Barber) and D.J. Tanner (Candace Cameron Bure) begin junior excessive however discover it arduous to slot in with the older crowd. Naturally, the 2 determined to provide themselves an enormous 80s makeover with an extreme quantity of make-up, mini attire, and fishnet stockings.

“I used to be dying after I watched that,” Sweetin, who portrayed Stephanie Tanner, mentioned on the podcast. “Hilarious. Ridiculous. What are your ideas on it right this moment?”

Barber then admitted that whereas she was “mortified” watching it again, that episode was nonetheless a “core reminiscence” for the actress.

“I used to be fairly flat at that age, which isn’t an enormous deal. That is very regular,” Barber recalled. “However then once they needed to — like okay, they needed 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’d like it stuffed extra. We’d like it greater.’ And that was mortifying to have males 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 had been solely 13 on the time.

“It’s a storyline that is not, like, made up. It’s precisely what youngsters do. My youngsters do it. , each technology goes via completely different, like, oh, it is a miniskirt, it is a crop high, it is a, you understand, dishevelled pants and no matter,” she mentioned. “Like, it is all the time one thing that they are making an attempt to do.”

“However, yeah, I positively like, after 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 stating 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.

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 if you’re an grownup, you do not care. If you’re a child, oh my god.”

The Kimmy Gibbler actress admitted she was “beat crimson” when watching the episode again, recalling how the producers requested her to pad her bra to make her chest greater.

“I do not assume we would have liked it,” she recalled of the padding. “I feel they obtained 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 properly.”

“I hold pondering, ‘What if it was my daughter, my 13-year-old, on the market and the place males are speaking in regards to the dimension of her bust?’ ” Barber added. “I’d have an issue with that if I used to be the mother.”

Whereas she now disagrees with this, Barber mentioned she is not scarred by the second, however she does assume the joke ought to have been modified.

“I am effective now. I wasn’t scarred by it,” she added, however “I might be like, ‘Guys, that is — change the joke. There is a completely different — there’s a greater joke on the market.’ ”

Sweetin then mentioned that she doesn’t assume the scene was deliberately inappropriate because it “was a really regular storyline of stuff that all of us knew that.”

“However, yeah, positively wanting again on it now, you are like, ‘I do not know that I really like that,'” she continued as Barber mentioned she “did not love” that second and “that reminiscence has caught with” her.