Eden Sher is the 18-year-old actress who plays her. She put on fake braces and dressed real young to help land the role on the show.
“I don’t know what came over me, but I just decided to wear fake braces to the audition,” Sher said during a phone interview with The Oklahoman. “When I tested for it, they didn’t know I was any different from the 12-year-old girls auditioning.
“It was really funny when I went in for wardrobe fitting after I booked the pilot. I came in normally without braces, and the director started freaking out. He was like, ‘Eden, did you get your braces off?’ No one knew they were fake.”

Sher already has a favorite scene from the show, though, and it has an Oklahoma connection.
“It was the ‘Kung-Fu Fighting’ scene when we challenged some boys to a fight, and we danced,” said Sher, who was born and raised in Los Angeles and has never been to Oklahoma. “That was so fun and funny.
“And Blaine Saunders, the girl who plays Carly, was in the scene. She is from Oklahoma, and she’s in a couple other episodes, too. We’re friends, and that’s my only connection to Oklahoma.”

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For show-runners Eileen Heisler and DeAnn Heline, the early pickup is validation of a gentle and genuinely sweet take on raising kids in an increasingly frantic world.

“It allows us to go forward without the fear hanging over our heads of not being back,” Heisler told reporters at this week’s meeting of the TV Critics Association in Pasadena, Calif. “We get to invest more, as we hope the audience will as well.”

That middle-American setting is crucial to The Middle’s success, Heisler believes.

“DeAnn and I are both from the Midwest, and it started from our yearning for the life we came from. The location is a very important part of the show. We wanted to show regular people in the middle of the country, living more-or-less ordinary lives.”

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