- Garth said during Earth Day in 1991 she and Perry were at a zoo when fans rushed towards them.
- The two were placed in a zoo cage to keep the fans from them.
- "And it sort of summed it up for me because I felt like a zoo animal," Garth said on the "People in the '90s" podcast.
"Beverly Hills, 90210" star Jennie Garth realized just how famous she was in the 1990s when she was thrown into a zoo enclosure to escape fans.
Garth recalled the moment recently on People's "People in the '90s" podcast alongside her "90210" costar Tori Spelling.
It was Earth Day in 1991, according to Garth, and she and costar
"And it sort of summed it up for me because I felt like a zoo animal," Garth said on the podcast.
"It was just weird," Garth continued. "And then it got too crazy, and people were rushing the zoo cages. And we had to go out through one of the enclosures of the animals - I don't remember, the monkeys or something - but I just remember them actually putting us in a cage at the zoo."
Looking back, Garth said that was "one of the pivotal moments" in her life as she realized she and her costars were famous.
By 1991 the series showcasing the lives of high school teens in Beverly Hills had begun airing its first season on Fox and teens went wild for the show. Especially Garth, who played Kelly Taylor, and Perry as Dylan McKay (Perry died in 2019).
At that time, no star of the show could go out in public without being chased by fans, but Spelling pointed out on the podcast that the male stars got it worse than the females.
"When everyone started fanning out over us, mostly we remember the boys, they would go crazy for the boys," Spelling said. "And we were like, 'They're dreamy, but we are with them every day.' So it was very different to see how girls would freak out."
Clearly, Garth would have had a better experience at the zoo that day if she didn't go with Perry.