Melissa Joan Hart turned down Playboy to protect her family

Melissa Joan Hart has worn many hats after changing into a licensed sitcom star within the ’90s.

Because the eldest of eight youngsters, the ‘Sabrina the Teenage Witch’ actress admitted that she felt the burden of duty from a younger age. The burden of duty was so heavy that Hart as soon as refused to look in Playboy journal in the course of the top of her fame as a younger actress.

Throughout a efficiency on the Podcast ‘Sibling Revelry’Hart mirrored on her resolution to show down grownup publication, saying her resolution had a optimistic influence on her household and future youngsters.

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Melissa Joan Hart turned down Playboy after seeing how one other racy journal cowl negatively affected her household. (Bobbybank)

Hart recalled how her brother and father had been each “tortured” by folks after she posed in Maxim journal. “I did not wish to do something that may embarrass or damage them,” she informed co-hosts Kate Hudson and her brother Oliver Hudson.

When Playboy referred to as, the “Clarissa Explores it All” star put her foot down and mentioned no.

“I assumed, ‘I am unable to do it,’” Hart remembers. “I am unable to do it, they usually provided me some huge cash, and I assumed, ‘I am unable to do it as a result of I do not need my brother to get damage by this, the very last thing he wants. He is already being tortured by me and underwear, not to mention utterly.’

“I am unable to do it, they usually provided me some huge cash.”

–Melissa Joan Hart

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She continued, “And I’d have been keen to do it as a result of I used to be like, I am not ashamed of my physique. I am happy with my physique. That is positive with me. However then I am actually glad I did not do this as a result of now I’ve three boys and I do not want these photographs for that.”

Hart posed for Maxim’s October 1999 cowl. (Bob D’Amico/Disney Common Leisure Content material by way of Getty Photos)

Hart had some instinct that her resolution on the time would have an effect on her future.

She famous that she was “fairly joyful that I made that selection for my brother, which then interprets to my children.”

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Coronary heart married musician Mark Wilkerson in 2003, and later welcomed three sons, Mason, Braydon and Tucker.

Hart rose to fame on Nickelodeon earlier than starring in “Sabrina the Teenage Witch.” (Getty Photos)

“I at all times knew that that may be a connection, that at some point I’d have youngsters the place you understand, what do I would like them to see?,” she mentioned. “And I sort of performed that via the eyes of my siblings, so I really feel like I used to be additionally raised by these hippie dad and mom who grew their very own pot within the backyard.”

She added: “My mom as soon as informed me that she mentioned, ‘You understand, I’ve performed all of the medication. I haven’t got to. They don’t seem to be value it.’ And I assumed, ‘Okay, nice, that feels like… I like that, like I am taking your phrase for it. I do not want it. ”

Hart beforehand informed Fox Information Digital that as a working mom of three, she tries to restrict self-imposed strain, however she’s solely human and “mother guilt” is actual.

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“That is the good factor about my job; I is usually a full-time mum or dad after I’m not working,” she mentioned. “However mother guilt is actual, I believe; mum or dad guilt is actual throughout the board, I believe, it doesn’t matter what you do.”

Hart and husband Mark Wilkerson share three sons collectively. Final summer season they celebrated their twenty second wedding ceremony anniversary. (Jason Kempin/Getty Photos)

She added, “I attempt to have a look at the blessing of having the ability to be house and take them to highschool [or] be there for his or her birthdays. I am ensuring I am house for Halloween this yr. I could not attend the homecoming, so there are sacrifices. However then I actually get to work. Proper now I am utterly absorbed within the movie I am doing, and you understand I get full time to focus on that. After which I’m going house and have full-time mother time.

“It is that bizarre steadiness the place you are at all times, you understand, by no means certain if you happen to’re doing it proper, however I assume that is simply parenting.”