For seven seasons, Danielle Fishel played Topanga in Boy Meets World, but she's certainly
grown up a lot since the series finale in 2000.
From studying psychology to working at Bloomingdales, here's what really happened to Danielle Fishel.
"Hi, I'm Danielle Fishel.
When I was a child, I was a child actor.
And now that I'm an adult, I'm an adult actor.”
Unenthusiastic about the jobs she was being offered post-Boy Meets World, Fishel decided
to take on the role she was born to play: herself.
She told My Entertainment World,
Fishel found work as a correspondent on The Tyra Banks Show in 2007, occasionally discussing
topics like the Hollywood casting couch and her romance with NSYNC's Lance Bass.
And all of that led to her her landing The Dish in 2008.
She told the outlet,
If someone told you they saw Fishel at Bloomingdale's, you'd think of course a celebrity might be
shopping there.
But if someone told you they saw Fishel working at Bloomingdale's, you might do a double take.
And yet, the actress was in fact an employee at the ritzy department store.
She told LAist in 2008,
But that wasn't the only normal job that caught Fishel's fancy.
She revealed,
Fishel was back in the news in 2007, and not in a good way.
She was arrested on a drunk driving warrant in Orange County and released from jail shortly
after, leading to headlines such as "Boy Meets World Star Meets Jail Cell."
If this TMZ story is to be believed, Fishel broke out the water works during her court
hearing in 2008, and it reportedly worked.
The judge let her off the hook with probation.
"Eric, do you think I'm fat?"
"Yeah."
Fishel said all the right things as spokesperson for Nutrisystem in 2007.
She lost 28 pounds with the weight loss service and raved about it in the press, telling OK!
magazine she used to feel uncomfortable in her own skin but now felt quote, "a-mazing."
"If I even thought about a carb, I gained weight."
And then there was the Nutrisystem ad where she claimed she lost out on roles after she
gained weight, but then got her bikini body back and all was ok.
But Fishel later revealed it was all for show.
Once the swimsuit shoot was over, the actress told People,
Since then, she's stopped stressing out so much about her figure.
These days, she says,
Following years of false starts, Fishel finally got up the courage to go back to school.
She wrote on her Tumblr,
Fishel graduated Summa Cum Laude from Cal State-Fullerton with a degree in Psychology
in 2013.
For a time, Fishel was happy focusing on her schooling, telling Laughing Place,
That "call" turned out to be an offer to reprise her role as Topanga in Boy Meets World's long-rumored
sequel: Disney Channel's Girl Meets World.
The series premiere earned an impressive 5.2 million viewers in 2014, but the novelty eventually
wore off and audiences tuned out.
"Let's get married, let's have a kid, let's have another kid."
"Well you listened to me, ya big stupid."
Girl Meets World was canceled after three seasons.
"You get love advice, you get love advice, you get love advice.
Love advice for everyone."
Fishel and Jensen Karp were only "acquaintances" when they both attended Calabasas High School
in California.
But after Fishel's 2015 divorce from her husband of two years, the former high school classmates
would become a whole lot more.
"Got a love crime?
I'll solve it."
The couple began dating in 2017, the same year that Karp launched Drop the Mic with
James Corden.
Not coincidentally, Fishel appeared on the show in 2018.
"Alright, it's like that, huh."
Fishel and Karp got engaged in May of that year, and six months later, walked down the
aisle.
Karp posted:
Fishel then added via Twitter:
As of 2019, the couple are expecting their first child together.
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