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Kat Dennings Says Casting Directors Called Her ‘Fat’ and Not ‘Pretty’ at 12 Years Old: ‘Very Harsh’

In an exclusive conversation with PEOPLE, Kat Dennings looks back at the harsh critiques she received from casting directors as a child actor and recalls how she was told she was "fat" at just 12 years old.

In an exclusive conversation with PEOPLE, the actress talks about how she learned to brush off those critiques at a young age and how she proved her naysayers wrong. The new sitcom follows Matt (Allen), the widowed owner of a shop that restores classic cars whose estranged daughter Riley (Dennings) and her two kids move back into his home. Before she got the call for the job, Dennings tells PEOPLE, she felt stuck in a "dark, sad moment in time," feeling lost and unsure of her next move.

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