Melissa Sue Anderson’s Kids Whom She Did Not Want to Raise the Way Michael Landon Raised His Daughter

Melissa Sue Anderson, known for playing Mary Ingalls in the “Little House on the Prairie,” for many reasons wanted a big family and a nice lovable husband when she was a teen. Although she did not have as many kids, she took drastic measures to ensure they had her full attention.

Former child star Melissa Sue Anderson once revealed she would like to have a big family, saying: “I’d like to have four to six kids – I like big families.”

When it came to what she looked for in a man, she kept it general while pointing out the possible characteristics she would go for to find one.

“What do I look for in a man? What everybody else wants, I guess – someone nice and lovable,” said the Canadian American actress.

Here are further details of Anderson’s husband and children whom she did not want to raise, similar to how Michael Landon raised his kids.

HOW MELISSA MARRIED HER OLDER HUSBAND

Before she met her now-husband Michael Sloan, Anderson was dating Frank Sinatra Jr., whom she met while appearing on “The Love Boat” in 1979 (he was 37 and she, 17). The California native described their relationship:

“It was exciting. But it was never really wild. That’s just not me.”

Following her stint on “Little House,” Anderson got cast in “umpteen Movies of the Week,” including T.V. programs such as 1987’s “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” on which she met her future spouse, Sloan.

He was the show’s executive producer during that period, and the couple was married three years later. Anderson began turning down roles after that.

Born in October 1946 in New York City, 76-year-old Sloan wed the lovely Anderson, his wife of over three decades, on March 17, 1990.

Apart from “Hitchock,” he also produced and wrote,...