Tootie’s Roller Skates
Viewers always saw nine-year-old Kim Fields skating around the house on “The Facts of Life.” Some spectators might have believed that Tootie, her character, loved roller skates; however, producers wanted Fields to look taller. This was due to the fact that she plays a 12-year-old.
Kim didn’t land a role on Diff’rent Strokes because she was too tall to work with Gary Coleman—ironically, just a short time before that!