From about the age seven, she says that she thought about dieting, having learned the word and the concept on the many television sets she worked on as a very busy child actress. She became preoccupied with the television movie The Best Little Girl in the World, starring actress Jennifer Jason Leigh, about an anorexic teenager. In _her_ autobiography, Gold says that in an attempt to control her development into a woman, she began restricting what she ate. <sep>, Pronoun: her