Danielle Fishel of the popular TV show Boy Meets World – which aired from 1993 until 2000 – was a ’90s pinup that was on every magazine’s hot list.
The 44-year-old actress posed in lacy lingerie for the April 2013 cover of Maxim as she reached bombshell status.
The best friend of Sabrina Carpenter has continued to work, popping up on the Boy Meets World reboot called Girl Meets World.
On Wednesday the Hollywood stalwart was named as one of the new celebrity contestants for season 34 of Dancing With The Stars.
See what she looks like now… and how she feels about wearing a ‘sexy’ dance costume today.
Danielle Fishel of the popular TV show Boy Meets World was a ’90s pinup that was on every magazine’s hot list. Now she is on Dancing With The Stars. See what she looks like these days; seen here in 2008
The 44-year-old actress posed in lacy lingerie for the April 2013 cover of Maxim as she reached bombshell status
Speaking to the Daily Mail at the post-cast reveal red carpet on Wednesday, the former childhood star said that after being asked before to join DWTS, she finally said yes this time around when she got a call in ‘mid-to-end of July.’
‘This year, when they asked, it was the most immediate and fastest “yes” of the year. I just knew for sure this time was right and I wanted to do it,’ she revealed.
Now that she works more as a director than actor, she explained how she hasn’t been ‘in front of a camera in a very long time’ and how exposing herself can be a vulnerable situation.
‘There is definitely a vulnerable feeling putting on a costume and these costumes are way sexier than anything I wear in my mom life, so there’s a little bit of vulnerability with that,’ she spilled. ‘But honestly, I’m just excited for the whole experience.’
Danielle has two sons with husband Jensen Karp: Adler, six, and Keaton, four.
Like many past contestants who have undergone a physical transformation after competing on the show, Danielle hopes to transform her body as well.
‘My physical goals are just to get into the best shape of my life because I’m going to be training for four hours a day, six days a week at least. So I think I’m going to get in pretty good shape,’ she shared.
‘And my mental goal’s almost kind of the opposite – I want physically to be the strongest and most strict with myself I’ve ever been, and mentally, I really want to give myself a lot of grace and try to feel what it feels like to feel proud of myself.
‘This time I really want to try to live in it and really experience joy and pride.’
The siren on her honeymoon in 2018; she is wed to Jensen Karp
The star during The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Halloween Party At The Mondrian Hotel at Sky Bar At The Mondrian Hotel in West Hollywood
Fishel is seen on January 16, 2004 in Los Angeles
Following the cast announcement, the Boy Meets World star debuted her show Danielle with the Stars: Danielle Fishel with iHeartPodcasts.
She said she and partner Pasha Pashkov, 39, were asked to arrive at rehearsals disguised; she says she’s shown up every day in a different character mask including a Hulk mask, an Iron Man mask, a Black Panther mask, and a Spiderman mask.
Her partner is a perfect personality fit and they get along really well; she says both she and her dance partner are both perfectionists.
Danielle says pro dancer Val Chmerkovskiy went up to her and asked if it was inappropriate to tell her he loved her.
She also talked about meeting Dylan Efron and says it’s her dream to have the both of them in the finals and wants to form an alliance with him and his partner.
Fishel’s first guest will be her newly announced dance partner, Pasha, which will air Friday, September 5.
Upcoming guests will also include Sabrina Bryan, who competed twice on Dancing with the Stars, first in Season 5 (2007) with Mark Ballas and later in the All-Stars Season 15 (2012) with Louis Van Amstel; and Jodie Sweetin, who joined Season 22 (2016) with Keo Motsepe.
Fishel is best known for her iconic role as Topanga on the ’90s TGIF staple ‘Boy Meets World.’
Fishel in a hot pink dress and gold heels for her first official images for Dancing With The Stars
Her dance partner is pro Pasha Pashkov
Fishel is seen exiting Good Morning America on September 3 in New York City
She would later reprise the role for ‘Girl Meets World,’ a millennial reboot that ran for three seasons on Disney Channel.
Since 2017, Fishel has moved behind the camera.
The blonde has directed over 50 episodes of multicamera television, including Disney Channel’s Wizards Beyond Waverly Place and ‘Raven’s Home (for which she was nominated for two Emmys).
She has also worked on ABC’s Shifting Gears and NBC’s Lopez vs. Lopez.
She also co-hosts the hit iHeart podcast Pod Meets World, alongside her best friends and former costars Will Friedle and Rider Strong.
Additionally, Fishel is passionate about her clean and affordable hair care line, Be Free by Danielle Fishel, which is available online and through QVC.
