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Heather Locklearhad to put her foot down on the set of one of her most beloved series.
“When I first got on, they had the uniform for me, and they go, ‘We need to give her a padded bra.’ And it was really padded. So, I’m like, ‘OK, I’ll put that on,'” sherecounted.
“And then a couple weeks later, I see something in my dressing room, and it’s like underwear with a butt in it. And I’m like, ‘You are not going to make me wear this.’ My butt’s too flat, my boob’s are too flat,” Locklear continued. “And so, I go, ‘I am not wearing these butt things, and I am not wearing this bra!’ Then, I became Stacy Sheridan.”
She first appeared on season 2 ofT.J. Hookerin 1982, starring alongsideWilliam Shatnerthrough season 5. Locklear played Officer Stacy Sheridan, the daughter of Captain Dennis Sheridan (Richard Herd), fresh out of the police academy.
Barrymore, 46, who played Locklear’s daughter in the 1984 Stephen King thrillerFirestarter, praised her for putting her foot down. “Good for you! I love it,” she said, adding of Locklear’s 1980s physique: “I mean, you don’t alter perfection.”
Locklear opened up to PEOPLE this week about turning 60 and shedding her insecurities. “I’vealways loved getting olderbecause it means I’m alive,” she said. “I’m so grateful. I don’t really give a hoot. I don’t give a hoot about how I look. My parents still love me. My daughter loves me.”
TheMelrose Placealum celebrated the milestone birthday with her fiancéChris Heisser, with whom she graduated from Newbury Park High School in Los Angeles in 1979, before reconnecting andgetting engagedin April 2020.
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“[Heisser], because his birthday is two days before mine, said, ‘Can you believe we’re turning 60?’ And I said, ‘I can’t wait,'” Locklear added. “I feel young. I’m a young 60. It’s all about perspective.”
See Heather Locklear in Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff: The Kristine Carlson Story, premiering Saturday at 8 p.m. ET on Lifetime.
source: people.com
