For Aussie girls who grew up watching Neighbours in the ’90s Brooke Satchwell’s character, Anne Wilkinson, was something of a mythical being.
Not only did she manage to look flawless in her maroon high school uniform, but she got the grades to go to art school AND her life-long romance with her cute neighbour Billy was the stuff teenage dreams are made of.
Unfortunately, creating the picture perfect world of Ramsay St wasn't always easy on the young actors pretending to live there.
Speaking on GOLD 104.3's Jo & Lehmo show this morning, Satchwell recalled overhearing a producer of the show criticise her appearance after shooting a particularly uncomfortable scene.
She was just 17 at the time.
It was the middle of winter and she was pretending to cry while running under a rain machine with a wetsuit hidden under her clothes for warmth - AKA the Logie winner was not looking her best.
"I had to run down a road, I was crying, we had rain machines. I had a wet suit under a very pink top. I'm running there crying, boogers, the whole thing," the now 36-year-old told the radio hosts.
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It was a big finale episode and the actors were allowed to watch the footage back before it went to air.
"I was sitting in front of the producers," Satchwell said.
"And I hear the producer sitting behind me going, 'she could look a little more attractive.'
"I was 17 years old... you run in a rain machine with a wet suit on under your clothes!"
It's not the first time the actress has spoken about 'body-shaming', in 2015 she teamed up with the Butterfly Foundation for their body-positive "Don't DIS my appearance campaign".
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is that body shaming? Upsetting to a 17 year old for sure, but it sounds like it could have been about the wetness and boogers?