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Posted on 11/17/2025 11:22:07 AM PST by pnz1
Melissa Gilbert has a new perspective about her “Little House on the Prairie” experience.
While clapping back at Megyn Kelly’s recent comments about late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the actress, now 61, reflected on the 8-year age difference between herself and Dean Butler, who played her on-screen love interest in the NBC series.
“So, I debated posting this but, I feel compelled to share. After seeing many women’s posts with the hashtags #iwasfifteen #imfifteen #iwasachild, I decided to google search myself at that age and see what came up,” Gilbert wrote on Instagram on Saturday, alongside photos of her younger self.
“And this is some of what I found…and now, at this age, at this time, I am actually nauseated,” the actress added. “The girl on vacation in Hawaii with her family, is the same girl who was expected to ‘fall in love with’ and kiss a man on film who was several years older than she was.”
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Then return the money.
It’s called playing a part, Melissa.
It also is, sometimes, historically accurate despite the fact it would be out of synch now.
8 years!!! Big deal.
I think Dean would find her too old now anyway.
Only 61? She dresses and looks like a 70 year old grandma. 25 years ago she was smoking hot
She probably had a stage mom and spent some time on the casting couch.
My grandfather was born in 1880. My grandmother (my grandfather’s second wife) was born in 1896. That was not at all uncommon before the turn of the last century. Many first and second wives died during childbirth.
I’m still trying to figure out what it was that Megyn Kelly said that was “controversial.”
FTA: “He liked 15-year-old girls. And I realize this is disgusting. I’m definitely not trying to make an excuse for this. I’m just giving you facts, that he wasn’t into, like, 8-year-olds,” she said.
“But he liked the very young teen types that could pass for even younger than they were, but would look legal to a passerby,” Kelly added. “There’s a difference between a 15-year-old and a 5-year-old, you know?”
My father was 16 years older than my mother when they married, and it wasn't a shotgun wedding. Their first child wasn't born until 4 years later. Three more followed. I was the last. My father was born in 1904. My mother in 1920. My mother quit high school at 16. Her mother blessed the marriage. My mother's birthday was October 9th. They married on October 10th, 1936. They were married 42 years when my father passed. In today's world, my father would be looked upon as a pedophile by the perverted left.
2) One of my greatgrandfathers was also 42 when he married his third wife (first two died consecutively), who was also 16, my greatgrandmother. He died about 20 years later, and she married three more times, each husband dying consecutively.
3) My wife was 15 years younger than I, which greatly concerned her family, who only later concluded that we were OK as a couple. She passed away almost five years ago now of complications from MS.
4) Robert Schumann was 30 when he proposed to Clara Wieck, who was 15. Her parents refused the marriage, so Schumann sued them, and the lawsuit took so long that Clara turned 18 and they got married. After Robert died of complications from syphilis, Johannes Brahms, who was 15 years younger than Clara, proposed to her; she said no, she would spend her life promoting her late husband.
Relax, Melissa.
“Thirteen, fourteen, she’s in her prime
Fifteen, sixteen she still has time
Sixteen, seventeen her time is done
Nineteen, twenty-Pa needs a shotgun”
—Grannie from Beverly Hillbillies
What is she saying? That Dean Butler was a predator?
Or maybe Michael Landon did a superb job of casting the show.
The real-life Laura (Ingalls) Wilder was eight years younger than her husband, Almanzo Wilder.
No kidding. 8 years? Big whoop. I bet if the ages were reversed it would be called “liberating” or something modernly stupid.
20 and 12 is bad....30 and 22 isn’t really bad.
“I’m still trying to figure out what it was that Megyn Kelly said that was “controversial.”
Me too.
I have an 8 year difference with my husband of 35 years. She is nuts.... And looking for significance in her fading famous life.
Back in those days I liked Laura the best. But Marry was actually the better character. And it seems that Melissa Sue Anderson did not spend her life crying on the Howard Sterns show and other places in attempt to make the show seem bad.
This seems ridiculous. That age difference was not uncommon for the time the series portrayed.
(Did she or her parents complain about it at the time?)
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