Who is Lori Loughlin

90210 castmember Lori Loughlin spoke out to defend her younger fellow castmates on 90210 from some reports they're starving themselves so that they'll look superslim onscreen. Loughlin plays Celia, the mother of Shenae Grimes' character Annie Mills, insists the show's sexy cast are all naturally thin with metabolisms that allow them to eat whatever they want and not gain weight. (We should all be so lucky).

Loughlin was interviewed by Touch magazine, and states "They are thin, but they've been thin since the day I met them. It's not like they got on the show and their weight just plummeted. Shenae is very petite; her frame doesn't even look like it could carry a lot of weight... I see them eating lunch and candy... These girls are young and their metabolisms are moving at light speed - they can eat whatever they want..."

Summerland, which ran for 26 episodes from 2004-2005, was co-created by Lori Loughlin and she wrote 4 episodes for the series. She also starred as Ava Gregory, who received custody of her two nephews and niece, Bradin (Jesse McCartney), Nikki (Kay Panabaker) and Derrick (Nick Benson) from Kansas after their parents died in a car accident. They move into aunt Ava's Californian home in Summerland (hence the title).

Ava is a trying to develop her business as a clothes designer and lives with her best friend and business partner, Susannah Rexford (Merrin Dungey). Also living there are Ava's friend Jay Robertson (Ryan Kwanten, now on True Blood) eho is an ex-pro-surfer,and further complicating things - her ex-boyfriend Johnny Durrant (Shawn Christian) who is a real estate agent.

The adults have difficulty raising these children that have joined the lives and the series follows each of them as they try to work their way through their lives. Ava (Louchlin) is trying to balance her feelings for childhood sweatheart Johnny all the while trying to raise her sister's 3 children.