Danica MckellarThe most famous for the role of Winnie Cooper on the beloved series "The Wonder Years", he illuminates why she decided to go away from Hollywood.

The actress, who first found glory as a children's star through the show, explained that she should deviate her to reveal himself out of her early success.

Her decision took her to the university, where she graduated with honors. Danica Mckelar eventually returned to the acting and since then continued to the star in several life films and markings.

During her appearance on "Hey man." The 90's "Podcast, Danica Mckellar opened about leaving Hollywood for a while after success in" The Wonder Years ".

"I should have figured out who I was except Winnie Cooper," the actress told her decision, a half Page six. "It was a blessing to be in the show who is popular, but he was very limited as a teenager when you are 18."

She claimed that her popularity followed and after the show, but all that didn't matter because of his battle at the time to understand who she was.

"Everywhere else I left, it was," Hey, aren't you the girl you know it was playing Winnie? "Aren't you that girl from TV?" "A mathematician was discovered?

She added: "It's like constant, you're trying to figure out who you are your teenager and everyone else tells you who you are."

Thinking about that period, the 50-year-old admitted that one of the strongest feelings that experienced was uncertainty, because her career failed to take off the early popularity.

"You have a lot of success, and then you don't have it anymore, and you are like" who, who am I now? Where can I get my validation? "" Mckellar shared about his feelings. "I had to get away from it and discover who I was."

Uncertainty and self-confidence in the end they pushed her to enroll in classes in UCLA, where she had entered the math diploma.

"I took all the makeup and I would wear a backpack and a shirt and threw my hair into a horse tail," she recalled her time in UCLA.

Fortunately for Mckellar, she found a sense of validation she was looking for while he was persecuting higher education.

The actress called for a hit on Calculus test, which made her classmates recognize that she was more than just actresses. At that moment, she said, she gave her a feeling she described as "biggest sense".

"It had nothing to do with Hollywood's jurisdiction or all great writers or sound designs and all the things they did to make Winnie Cooper (U) Winnie Cooper," mckellar reflected. "It was just me and my brain who did it."

Finally, Mckelar graduated in Summa Cum Laude with a mathematics science degree.

The former children's star turned his passion in advocating, encouraging secondary and secondary school students to build trust in Mathematics author with several affordable books.

Some of the books written by actresses include "mathematics not sucking," Kissing my math "," hot X: algebra exposed ", and" girls get curves: geometry takes shape. "