During the December 2025 Little House on the Prairie Cast Reunion in Simi Valley, CA, Grassle, 83, recalled filming for the Season 7 episode “I Do Again.” In the episode, Ma Ingalls and her daughter, Laura (Melissa Gilbert), both experience pregnancy symptoms. Ma, desperate to bear a son after having four daughters, soon finds out that she is not pregnant but is instead beginning menopause. She sinks into a depression over the revelation that her childbearing years are over.
"They wrote that Ma stopped having her period and she thought she was pregnant, and then they wrote that, no, no, she's going through menopause," Grassle recalled, per People magazine. "I was like, 'Give me a break.'"
Grassle revealed that she found it hard to relate to her character’s problem and worried that the storyline was "going to ruin” her career as an actress who hadn’t even turned 40 yet.
This wasn’t the first time Grassle worried that the role of Caroline would hurt her career. Speaking with That’s Classicin 2023, she admitted she was initially unsure about taking the role as the Ingalls matriarch, which she ultimately played from 1974 to 1982.
Grassle admitted that she joined the cast because she “needed a job.”
“I love physical acting, so this episode felt a little like being let out of school in a way,” Grassle shared. “So much of the time I was in that straight-laced costume, straight-laced hair, tight shoulders, you know, restricted physically. In ‘A Matter of Faith,’ I could kind of break free, and that was a pleasure for me.”
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