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Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.

Danica McKellar

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Danica McKellar
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 3
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La Jolla
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