'Boy Meets World' star Danielle Fishel said that a show executive had a calendar photo of her at 16 hanging up in his bedroom

• "Boy Meets World" star Danielle Fishel revealed that a show executive kept a photo of her at 16 on his bedroom wall.

• Speaking on the "Pod Meets World" podcast, Fishel shared her experience of being sexualized as a teenager.

• "I had people tell me they had my 18th birthday on their calendar," the actress said.

"Boy Meets World" star Danielle Fishel revealed that a creepy show executive once told her that he had a calendar photo of her on his wall.

Speaking on the "Pod Meets World" podcast episode released on June 15, Fishel shared details about the uncomfortable interaction she had with the unnamed older male colleague.

"I had a male executive — when I did a calendar at 16 — he specifically told me he had a certain calendar month in his bedroom," the 42-year-old actress said.

While she was initially shocked by the comment, Fishel said that the teenage version of herself tried to rationalize the interaction.

"At that time, although the first thought when I heard that was a little like 'Oh.' The immediate thought after that was 'Yes because we are peers, and this is acceptable... and this is how you relate to peers,'" the actress said.

And that wasn't the only time that people had made sexualized comments about her to her face, Fishel added: "I had people tell me they had my 18th birthday on their calendar."

On the podcast, Fishel — alongside co-hosts and fellow "Boy Meets World" costars Rider Strong and Will Friedle — rewatch episodes of the 1990s sitcom and reflect on their experiences filming the show.

In this particular June 15 episode, the trip opened up about the negative impacts of being in showbiz and what it was like to be seen as "objects of desire" despite their ages.

"I hated it," Strong said. "I think I've been pretty open about that. When I felt reduced to a certain 'teen idol' thing, it just made me so uncomfortable."

The way that women approached him and reacted to him made him "go inward," the 43-year-old actor said: "It made me shyer than I probably would have been."

On the other hand, Friedle said that being unpopular with girls in his hometown in Connecticut made him question the authenticity of women who wanted to date him when he was in LA.

"Like, why all of a sudden now are these beautiful women paying attention to me and they want to date me, when the girls I grew up with don't want to have anything to do with me?" Friedle said.

The 46-year-old actor then acknowledged that although it probably wasn't true, there was a part of him that felt that these women liked him just because he was on television.

Looking back, Fishel, who's now a mother of two, also added that she didn't realize how inappropriate it was for her to be treated like that as a child.

"As a kid, I always wanted to be older. I always wanted to be an adult. I wanted to be seen as an adult," Fishel said. "And so getting adult male attention as a teenage girl felt like — I didn't think of it as being creepy or weird."

In a way, the attention felt like "validation" from the adults around her that she was mature and capable, the actress said.

"But in a romantic, male-gaze sense, I should not have been outwardly talked about at 14, 15, 16 years old," she continued. "And in hindsight, that is absolutely wrong."

Fishel added that being sexualized at a young age has also had lasting repercussions on the way she navigated personal relationships because she didn't know how to manage her boundaries.

"It wasn't until I was in my late 30s that I went, okay, I've had failed relationship after failed relationship, and I could easily point the finger and be like that's because this guy was this, and this guy was this, but at the end of the day — I'm the one doing the selecting and I'm the one picking these people. What am I doing wrong?" Fishel said.

"I didn't really process how it affected me as a teenager — or how it affected me in my 20s or even in my 30s — up until the last few years," she added.

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