A beautiful woman married to a successful lawyer and the perfect suburban mother turns out to be a closeted bulimic.
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Title: Kate's Secret (TV Movie 1986)
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| Meredith Baxter | ... | Kate Stark (as Meredith Baxter Birney) | |
| Ben Masters | ... | Jack Stark | |
| Georgann Johnson | ... | Faith | |
| Tracy Nelson | ... | Patch Reed | |
| Shari Belafonte | ... | Gail (as Shari Belafonte-Harper) | |
| Leslie Bevis | ... | Monica Fields | |
| Edward Asner | ... | Dr. Resnick | |
| Mackenzie Phillips | ... | Deyna | |
| Summer Phoenix | ... | Becky Stark | |
| Sharon Spelman | ... | Liz Reed | |
| Mindy Seeger | ... | Markie | |
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Isabel Grandin | ... | Dot |
| Liz Torres | ... | Laura | |
| Gwynne Gilford | ... | Lorna | |
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Rosanna Huffman | ... | Megan |
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A beautiful woman married to a successful lawyer and the perfect suburban mother turns out to be a closeted bulimic.
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17 November 1986 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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This movie tells the story of Kate, a beautiful housewife and mother who's constantly exercising, and eating lightly, but who goes on binges for food and desserts. She then goes and "gets rid" of the food in her stomach. Her secret is finally disclosed when she's driving her little girl home from scouts, and she passes out while driving. Her little girl is fine, but the doctor discovers that Kate is bulimic, and tells her husband about her condition, Kate has many battles trying to overcome her problem in the clinic for anorexia and bulimic women, but finally gets on the road to recovery. Meredith Baxter was fabulous as Kate!