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Following the enormous success of the HGTV seriesA Very Brady Renovation, actress Maureen McCormick has decided to stick with the network for the time being, hosting the new series Frozen in Time, which volition be premiering in the leap. Working aslope designer Dan Vickery, the concept is that they will exist overhauling homes that seem to be trapped in fourth dimension in terms of design, with Dan bringing the interior up to date while Maureen looks for cardinal pieces that represent the era the business firm was "stuck" in. The goal is to create a home offering a nod to its original era while as well providing a refreshed look. For Maureen, it must be very exciting to be experiencing this renaissance in her career.

Of the 6 "kids" from The Brady Bunch, it'south probably Maureen — who, like her costars, volition be known equally her onscreen alter ego, in her case Marcia Brady — that had the most challenging fourth dimension coping with life outside of the show, peculiarly in its backwash. Merely unlike many other Classic TV child stars whose path led to self-destruction — a road which Maureen definitely treaded on — she did non come to a tragic end or become embittered to the betoken of retreat from the thing that made her famous in the first place. Just equally importantly, she did more than just survive, moving her life and career in unlike directions,Frozen in Fourth dimensionbeing simply the virtually recent example.

Like Barry Williams, Eve Plumb, Christopher Knight, Susan Olsen and Mike Lookinland, her life every bit a Brady is something Maureen, 63, has come to peace with. And why not? The original show celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, the public nonetheless loves the Bunch and the actors are reuniting for what is their sixth series — this one in the class of their first reality show, HGTV's A Very Brady Renovation.

"For me," Maureen recently explained at the annual TCA gathering for the new prove, "I always expect at each project on its own and meet if it resonates with me as something that would be real and simply skillful. When I heard nigh this, I'm a huge fan of HGTV and all the shows that they exercise, and I talked with the people and just felt like they had a dear for this projection. I felt like this would be a really skilful one to be involved with, and I was very excited in getting back together with everyone. It's been a really long fourth dimension since we've all been together and working together, and information technology's only been so beautiful to be a part of."

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In the Beginning

She was born Maureen Denise McCormick on August 5, 1956 in Los Angeles, daughter of Irene and William McCormick and younger sister to brothers Michael, Dennis and Kevin. Possibly it was because she was the youngest, but Maureen loved to entertain others, often breaking into vocal, dancing, and putting on puppet prove for the neighbors. Her career — or at least a move towards i — began at the age of 6 when she won the Babe Miss San Fernando Valley beauty pageant, followed by her debut on television in 1964 in Barbie and Communicative Cathy commercials for Mattel (in 1970 she would end up voicing a redesigned Chatty Cathy doll).

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From TV Commercials to TV Guest Star

Beginning in 1964, Maureen made the transition from commercials to guest appearances on episodic boob tube. It started with two episodes of Bewitched between 1964 and 1965, which saw her playing the immature Endora (Samantha Stephens' mother, played by Agnes Moorehead). From there followed appearances on the shows The Farmer's Daughter, Honey West, Camp Runamuck, I Dream of Jeannie and My 3 Sons.

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'The Brady Bunch'

In 1969, Maureen joined her fictional siblings for the first time as The Brady Agglomeration made its debut on ABC, running until 1974. In the book Brady, Brady, Brady: The Complete Story of The Brady Bunch as Told by the Father/Son Team Who Really Know, series creator Sherwood Schwartz writes, "I spent an entire summer casting those vi kids, only I didn't want typical casting: Like 1 overweight child who keeps eating all the fourth dimension. Or a kid who just talks about sports. Or a brainy kid who knows everything … I wanted all the kids to be real. And I wanted their serial personas to be reflective of their own real personalities. The earth was wide open up in terms of kids' interests, and the kids I wanted would bring their own interests to their roles … For some reason, the girls were easier to cast. Maureen looked like she would grow up really beautiful, and that certainly could become part of her character."

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Never a ratings giant, The Brady Bunch nonetheless connected with a loyal audience that stuck with it through its five years. What no one could accept expected, though, was just how popular it would become in reruns. Or the fact that it would atomic number 82 to a number of spinoffs: the blithe The Brady Kids (1972-73), The Brady Agglomeration Diverseness Hour (1976-77), the Goggle box motion picture The Brady Girls Get Married (1981) which was followed past that year's TV series The Brady Brides, the TV motion-picture show A Very Brady Christmas (1988), the series The Bradys (1989) and, now, A Very Brady Renovation. Any way you shake it, that's a whole lotta Brady.

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A Double-Edged Sword

That identification, Maureen told WGN-Television, serves every bit both a blessing and a expletive. "Information technology's a blessing," she explained, "because I was on a show that is loved by America and that's a great thing. It'south a curse when you're an extra and you go and then well known for one role and you want to motion on and do other things. But the blessings definitely outweigh the curse. And it was just a cracking show to be a part of."

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She might non be able to say the aforementioned nigh her home life. Information technology seems that early on in production of The Brady Agglomeration, she discovered that her male parent had been having an affair. As if this wasn't bad plenty, her mother had contracted syphilis from her mother at birth, and, following a nervous breakdown, had electroshock therapy. As Maureen relayed to People, "I convinced myself that I was also infected with syphilis. Like my mother and her mother, I was destined to become insane. Both of them ended up in mental institutions. I was filled with dread."

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A Turn to the Darkside

Doing her best to proceed all of that at bay, when the original series ended its run, she returned to Taft Loftier School in Los Angeles for what was her senior year. It may have been an attempt to attain some sort of normalcy, but all it did was bring her downwards a darker road. "I didn't have whatsoever interest in academics," she admitted in the same interview. "To help me written report, friends introduced me to white crosses — pills they said would help me stay up. The pills peeled away the disquietude that resurfaced after I no longer had my life as a Brady to keep it at bay. We as well popped them to lose weight. I ever seemed to be five pounds away from being happy with myself."

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Following graduation, she institute information technology really hard to go interim roles, which led to fighting bulimia and experimenting with cocaine. "Coke quieted the voices in my head," she said. "The concerns I had nigh going insane vanished. I could do more coke than anyone, it seemed. It earned me the nickname Hoover. I got into the addiction of taking Quaaludes to come back down. I wasn't able to slumber without them."

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'Happy Days' to 'The Brady Bunch Variety Hr'

To be fair, she did manage to go piece of work with pocket-size parts in movies similar Moonshine County Express (1977), Take Down and Shaketown, USA (both 1979) and The Idolmaker (1980), with Tv set guest starring roles on Happy Days, Harry O, Joe Forrester and The Streets of San Francisco. In 1976 she reprised the part of Marcia Brady in The Brady Agglomeration Variety 60 minutes, which brought together the cast to play their characters who in turn are the host of a variety prove. It was truly bizarre and so of its time — and something authors Ted Nichelson, Susan Olsen (Cindy Brady herself!), and Lisa Sutton decided that the world needed to know all about, and went about writing what became the bookDearest to Love You Bradys: The Bizarre Story of The Brady Bunch Diversity Hour.

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In an sectional interview with Closer Weekly, Ted related that beyond the bizarre premise of this show, Maureen had a different problem stemming from the fact that she was, as Ted says, "at the summit" of her well-documented drug addiction. He points out, "She wouldn't evidence upwards for rehearsals, and and then she would show up with bruises on her arms and legs. Well, you lot tin can't accept your pretty Brady girls with bruises, so they all had to start wearing opaque leggings. You lot'll see after the pilot episode that none of the girls' legs are showing anymore. This is something Maureen admitted to me: They had to hire extra people to keep her corralled, because she was just a nitwit. She had someone who had to make sure that she was getting dressed, and got where she needed to go.

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"One fourth dimension," he elaborates, "Maureen didn't even testify up. She showed upward to do her pre-record, so they had her voice there and everything, but they couldn't detect her. They panicked, considering they merely had a brusque amount of time to moving-picture show this evidence. They institute her lying out on the beach somewhere, which is pretty good considering there was no texting or anything back in those days. But they were all sitting at that place in costume, and there'due south actually an episode where there are two musical numbers where Maureen is missing, so they had to re-stage one of them, and y'all can see Susan lip syncing Maureen's petty bit of singing. She told me Maureen never showed upwardly and they forced her to sync to it."

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Life Without Marcia

In the introduction of her 2008 autobiography Hither's the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Vocalism, Maureen writes, "When [The Brady Agglomeration] went off the air, I missed the structure and routine past my fictional Tv set family, and in a manner I missed Marcia, with whom I had such a love-hate relationship. She'd given me an identity. Without her, I had to figure out who I was — a next-to-impossible task for someone doing everything she could to avert the truth nigh herself. I sought refuge in seemingly glamorous cocaine dens above Hollywood. I idea I would find answers there, while in reality I was simply running farther from myself.

"From at that place," she adds, "I spiraled downward on a path of self-destruction that price me my career and very nearly my life. Over the years I battled drug addiction and bulimia. I was treated in a psych ward, went in and out of rehab and looked to God for answers."

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Turning Things Around… Eventually

Maureen met actor Michael Cummings and, on March 16, 1985, they were married. Four years after they welcomed into the world their girl, Natalie Michelle. Things should accept been getting better, merely as Maureen noted in that introduction, "I never felt as if the light shined on me, non even on the sunniest of days. I came out of information technology slowly and in stages. Beginning, I had to acknowledge and and then go help for a longtime struggle with depression. And then I had to come up to terms with my mother. And finally I needed to face myself. Once I stopped telling lies and trying to pretend that life was perfect, I was able to move on."

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Country Music

Between all of that, she decided to pursue one of her dreams and recorded the country album When You Get Lonely in 1995. Unfortunately it was greeted by negative reviews, though Maureen did get some positive notices for her vocalisation. "I kind of felt like it wasn't done the right style," she related to Entertainment Weekly in regards to the album's commercial failure. "There are certain rules in Nashville, and my album didn't really follow them. Nosotros came in from L.A. We had incredible musicians on the anthology, but I just would've liked it to take been more organic. It's always been a dream of mine to write a song and take it played on the radio. How cool would that be?"

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Interestingly, but not surprisingly because the success of The Brady Kids in Concert, Maureen had been offered a recording contract back at the fourth dimension the original series ended, only she turned it down, feeling she needed a normal life. "I've always regretted that," she said. "I recollect information technology would've been interesting to see where it would've gone. Could've, would've…"

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Fighting Her Demons

Only the album almost didn't affair. Finally, Maureen was ready to confront and deal with her addictions, ultimately managing to crush them and get her life back on track. While she was able to become interim roles here and there, she got the most attention for those Brady reunions, which in a sense could be seen as something of a lifeline. More than than that, information technology was probably reality TV that saved her life. In 2007 she appeared on VH1'southward Glory Fit Club, somewhen winning the onscreen contest based on her weight loss on it. It was that experience that really turned things around for her, allowing her to very publicly discuss her past problems with drugs and the mental health problems that plagued her near of her life.

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"When I turned 50," she told WGN-TV. "I did [that] show in which I had to do information technology, considering I was fat. I had gained a lot of weight and I had to get on a scale in forepart of America. And I realized that it was actually wonderful to prove the earth me; imperfect me with all of my mistakes and all of my faults. And I started writing [my biography] and just couldn't stop."

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In her book's introduction she elaborated, "Every bit trivial as information technology sounds, I didn't feel like I quit pretending until I fabricated a decision well-nigh whether or not to do Celebrity Fit Lodge. Simply that'due south what happened. Michael, Natalie and I were at the kitchen tabular array talking about the offering. All suddenly I had a feeling in my gut. Telephone call it being 50 and fatigued. Or being 50 and mettlesome. Or being 50 and not caring anymore what people thought almost me. But for the first time in my life I said, 'Yous know? I'm overweight. I'thou actually imperfect. I've had all this due south–t happen to me. I'm not going to hibernate it anymore.' 'You're going to practice it, so?' both of them asked. 'Yup,' I said. 'Screw it.'"

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More than Reality In Her Life

The post-obit year she joined the CMT reality series Gone Land, where she was in contest for a recording contract, attempting to pick up where she left off in 1995. While she didn't win there, she did end upward in the reality series Outsiders Inn, opening a bed and breakfast located in Newport, Tennessee. Fast-forward to 2015 and she began appearing on an Australian version of I'g a Glory … Get Me Out of Here! and she actually remained on the show for 42 days and was manifestly one of the last people to be evicted. (That's understandable: Who really wants to adios Marcia Brady?)

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'Dancing With the Stars'

In 2016, Maureen was announced as part of Season 23 of ABC's Dancing With the Stars. There she was paired upwards with pro dancer Artem Chigvintsev, making it until week seven before they were eliminated. Their placement was 5th.

During her time on the prove, there were moments she was caught on camera crying. It was something she was asked about past Entertainment Weekly, to which she replied, "I'chiliad emotional most everything. I feel a lot and I dearest it. To come up into this competition and experience like I was the worst dancer in the world. I had this other head above me when I danced with friends. I would accept to stop. I thought I looked ugly. I look uncoordinated. I didn't know what I'm doing. It was a huge affair for me. I've not been able to dance in public and bask it, and so it was one of my biggest fears. I'm a woman. I'yard insecure. I don't mind those things. They make me human. It'southward who I am."

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Life Comes Total Circle

And now life has substantially brought Maureen back to where, for all intents and purposes, it all began: with her fictional Brady Bunch siblings and existence part of A Very Brady Renovation, the reality series in which HGTV has taken the business firm that served as the exterior of the Brady dwelling on the TV series, and renovated the interior to await exactly as it did on the original series, which were actually sets on the Paramount Pictures lot.

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"People take asked why the original evidence is withal and then loved," she commented at TCA, "and why is it nonetheless playing in syndication, and why has information technology survived for so long? I truly believe it was one of those shows where everybody came together. It was an amazing experience. For me, it was fun going to work every solar day and being with these people. It was kind of just a magical matter that happened. And this whole feel has been one of the most magical ever since that's where it all feels so good."

Welcome domicile, Maureen.

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