If I'm teaching girls that do love to make cookies and do love fashion - that they can use math as a part of that - you think that's me saying, come on girls you belong in the kitchen, you belong shopping? Or, do you think it's me showing them how math is part of all their life, even the part they thought it had nothing to do with?

McKellar explained that Danica McKellar agreed to the shoot in part to obtain "grittier roles". In June 2006 Lifetime Television announced that McKellar would star in a Lifetime movie and web-based series titled Inspector Mom about a mother who solves mysteries. She also made an appearance on the show The Big Bang Theory in the episode "The Psychic Vortex".

Danica Mae McKellar (born January 3 1975) is an American actress academic and education advocate.