Melanie Watson Bernhardt, Diff’rent Strokes star, dies at 57 after lifelong battle with osteogenesis imperfecta: The condition, causes and treatment
Melanie Watson Bernhardt had this way of lighting up a room, even after her condition. She grabbed hearts back in the 80s as Kathy Gordon on Diff’rent Strokes, Arnold’s buddy in four sweet episodes. Born in 1968 in Dana Point, California, she faced osteogenesis imperfecta—brittle bone disease-from day one, but that never stopped her from…