‘Brady Bunch’ Icon Nearly Unrecognizable in Rare Public Outing originally appeared on Parade.
Susan Marie Olsen, 63, starred as the youngest Brady child, Cindy Brady, on The Brady Bunch for the full run of the ABC sitcom, which ran from 1969 to 1974. She was just 8 years old when the show premiered.
This week, Olsen was seen in a rare public outing running errands in Los Angeles, sporting long gray hair and a Hello Kitty Gudetama T-shirt.
Back in April, Olsen gave a rare interview about her time on The Brady Bunch for the “Real Brady Bros” podcast, which is hosted by her TV brothers Barry Williams (Greg) and Christopher Knight (Peter). The three discussed how much Olsen didn’t really like the way her character was written, with Williams saying to Olsen, “You’re so much smarter than your character. You’re so much edgier than your character. You’re the least like Cindy. Your personality is the least like their character than any of us.”
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Olsen explained that that was what a lot of her career was, playing the young, ditzy blonde girl.
“That’s just how my career was. And it was something I had to accept. And it was really emphasized when my son was old enough to start watching the things I was in,” said Olsen, going on to say that her son Michael commented once that she “always play[ed] the stupid child,” but her mother always said that it was “cute.”
“She doesn’t have a functioning brain, but she’s cute!” cracked Olsen.
In addition to The Brady Bunch and its various sequels and specials after its initial run, Olsen’s career also included appearances on Ironside, Julia, Gunsmoke, Pacific Blue, The Young and the Restless, and Child of the ’70s.
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‘Brady Bunch’ Icon Nearly Unrecognizable in Rare Public Outing first appeared on Parade on Jul 31, 2025
This story was originally reported by Parade on Jul 31, 2025, where it first appeared.
