When Bill Pentland worked as a trash collector, he would scavenge for toys for the kids. The overweight, relatively poor Jewish family did not fit in with Hollywood's cookie-cutter glam.

Barr’s ascension to everyone’s favorite sitcom mom was sudden and surreal. Previously, Pentland's father, Bill Pentland, worked at the post office while her mother took a job as a cocktail ...

In her new memoir, This Will Be Funny Later which is out Jan. 18, Pentland, 45, details being placed by her mother and father, Bill Pentland, in various facilities upon the recommendation of ...