"I've got a pretty good appetite right now"
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"I've got a pretty good appetite right now" lands like a throwaway line, but in Tracey Gold's mouth it reads as a small, hard-won declaration. Appetite is usually treated as background noise in celebrity culture: either a punchline (the starlet who "doesn't eat") or a problem to be managed. Gold flips that script by making hunger plain, present-tense, and unashamed. The modesty of "pretty good" is doing a lot of work: it's not a victory lap, not a manifesto, just a measured report from inside a body that’s being listened to again.
Given Gold's public history with anorexia and the way her image was consumed in the 1980s and 90s TV ecosystem, the line carries the subtext of survival without needing to name trauma. "Right now" is the most revealing phrase. It acknowledges that recovery isn't a finish line; it's weather. Appetite can be strong, weak, confusing, returning. By tethering the statement to the present moment, she resists the neat, inspirational arc the media loves to impose on women's bodies.
The intent, then, is quietly radical: to normalize a basic human signal in a culture that rewards women for overriding it. Coming from an actress - someone whose career depends on being seen - the sentence also pushes back against the industry's implied contract: be watchable, be controllable, be less. Gold is saying, with disarming calm, that she's choosing more.
Given Gold's public history with anorexia and the way her image was consumed in the 1980s and 90s TV ecosystem, the line carries the subtext of survival without needing to name trauma. "Right now" is the most revealing phrase. It acknowledges that recovery isn't a finish line; it's weather. Appetite can be strong, weak, confusing, returning. By tethering the statement to the present moment, she resists the neat, inspirational arc the media loves to impose on women's bodies.
The intent, then, is quietly radical: to normalize a basic human signal in a culture that rewards women for overriding it. Coming from an actress - someone whose career depends on being seen - the sentence also pushes back against the industry's implied contract: be watchable, be controllable, be less. Gold is saying, with disarming calm, that she's choosing more.
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