Topanga Lawrence was the perfect girl next door. She was kind, sweet, passionate, patient and super-smart—and she had one of the all-time great heads of hair on TV. But she also taught us that vanity is not a trait worth having (remember when she cut off those long, gorgeous locks to make a point?!) and that there’s nothing wrong with declaring that you found your soul mate at only 5 years old.
Between Boy Meets World and Girls Meets World, Danielle Fishel—whose first kiss was a smooch for the show with Ben Savage—was mainly herself on TV, appearing as a correspondent on The Tyra Banks Show and hosting Style Network’s The Dish. She also went back to college at 27 and earned her degree in 2012, proof it’s never a bad time to check off items on the to-do list.
While in school she fell for a fellow student, Tim Belusko, who she was married to for two years before quietly divorcing in 2016. She married Drop the Mic host Jensen Karp in 2018, with former co-stars Savage (who congratuled his “favorite TV wife” on her engagement) and Will Friedle in attendance.
Fishel and Karp welcomed a son named Adler in June. He was born a month early and spent some extra time in the hospital with a lung ailment, but the family of three is now happy and healthy at home. The new mom is also launching her own hair care line, Be Free by Danielle Fishel. Which, obviously, makes sense.