Marla Sokoloff’s bad girl on-screen past came back to haunt her when she had children. The actress, 43, told Full House costar Dave Coulier in his podcast, “ Full House Rewind, ” on Friday, August 2, that her kids were “horrified” to see how her character Gia Mahan acted in the 90s sitcom – especially when she smoked. Sokoloff’s character Gia was a bad-influence friend of Stephanie Tanner, played by Jodie Sweetin , with storylines involving the teen joyriding with boys and having a snarky attitude.
Full House aired on ABC from 1987 to 1995. “What do you tell them when they see Gia? ‘Don’t act like that?’” Coulier, 64, asked Sokoloff, who shares three daughters, Elliotte, 12, Olive, 8 and Harper, 2, with her husband Alec Puro . “Exactly,” Sokoloff laughed.
“Especially with the smoking stuff. They’re horrified.” The Practice actress added, “They were like, ‘Mom! You’re smoking?!’” Sokoloff reprised the role of Gia in the reboot, Fuller House , which ran from 2016 to 2020, a gig she took on before her youngest was born.
In 2019, she shared that during filming Fuller House , her oldest children, Elliotte and Olive, were “obsessed” with the show. “I mean, sometimes I will come home from working on Fuller House and I walk through the door, and they are watching Fuller House ,” she told In Touch in November 2019. “They stream, like, 800 episodes of it.
I am like, ‘Guys, we need to take a break!’” A post shared by Marla Soko.