{"id":127419,"date":"2022-08-18T15:16:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T09:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wonder-years-actor-danica-mckellar-explains-why-she-stepped-away-from-acting\/"},"modified":"2022-08-18T15:18:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T09:48:06","slug":"wonder-years-actor-danica-mckellar-explains-why-she-quit-acting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wonder-years-actor-danica-mckellar-explains-why-she-quit-acting\/","title":{"rendered":"Wonder Years Actor Danica McKellar explains why she quit acting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Danica McKellar, who had been playing the same role for five consecutive years, became synonymous with Winnie the Good-hearted after becoming the face of Winnie. “The Wonder Years.”McKellar confessed that she was a beloved character in an interview with her son Entertainment Tonight<\/a>Her TV career had negative consequences on her life after the show ended. “I went to UCLA, but when I got to school, everywhere I went, people all over campus would shout across campus, you know, ‘Hey Winnie!’ … I couldn’t get away from it,”She spoke.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Similar to many other child stars \u2014 like\u00a0Miley Cyrus as Hannah Montana<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 McKellar experienced an identity crisis after playing a character for most of her teenage years. “I needed to find out how I was valuable outside of Winnie Cooper,” McKellar explained. “And math was challenging and I did well at it.” That’s right! According to UCLA Alumni<\/a>McKellar was an expert in mathematics, and was a key part of “[proving] a groundbreaking physics theorem”That was then published, and it was named after its researchers: The Chayes-McKellar\u2013Winn Theorem. McKellar graduated with a bachelor’s degree from mathematics in 1998.<\/p>\n

Instead of being passive, you can be active! “Winnie from ‘The Wonder Years,'”McKellar ventured into STEM. After graduating from college, McKellar began to write a series. Math books<\/a>, which encouraged readers \u2014 especially women \u2014 to disregard stereotypes and join the mathematics field. McKellar published 11 math books as of 2022. The last one was a children’s book. “Double Puppy Trouble.”\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Danica McKellar, who had been playing the same role for five consecutive years, became synonymous with Winnie the Good-hearted after becoming the face of Winnie. “The Wonder Years.”McKellar confessed that she was a beloved character in an interview with her son Entertainment TonightHer TV career had negative consequences on her life after the show ended. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":127420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Wonder-Years-Actor-Danica-McKellar-Explains-Why-She-Stepped-Away.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127421,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127419\/revisions\/127421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}