She truly gave it her all.

In a delightful twist, Sally Struthers, known for her role in “Gilmore Girls,” added an unexpected touch of improvisation during the show’s production.

Recalling the filming of the Season 6 premiere, “New and Improved Lorelai,” Struthers shared with The Post how during a night shoot, her character, Babette, was tasked with rushing from the town square to Luke’s Diner to deliver urgent news, much like a modern-day town crier.

“After several takes, I started feeling uncomfortable,” Struthers, now 78, explained. “My chest was jostling around quite a bit, and I wasn’t wearing a sports bra. So, I ended up holding my chest as I ran.”

Her impromptu solution drew laughter from the show’s creator, Amy Sherman-Palladino, leaving a memorable mark on the production process.

The series creator laughed because “she couldn’t believe I was doing that.” 

So although it wasn’t in the script, “That’s the take that’s in the show – Babette running, holding her breasts.” 

The “All in the Family” actress played Babette Dell in “Gilmore Girls,” Lorelai (Lauren Graham) and Rory (Alexis Bledel)’s kooky neighbor. 

Struthers was talking to the Post in honor of the show’s 20th anniversary, as the beloved family drama first premiered in Oct. 2000. 

“Gilmore Girls” aired from 2000 to 2007 on The WB (which then became the CW) before it briefly returned for a 2016 Netflix revival, “Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life.” 

Set in the fictional charming town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut, the story followed former teen mom Lorelai (Lauren Graham) as she raised her precocious teen daughter, Rory (Alexis Bledel). 

Supporting characters included their neighbor Babette, Lorelai’s difficult mother, Emily (Bishop), Loreli’s diner-owning love interest, Luke (Scott Patterson), Luke’s nephew Jess (Milo Ventimiglia), Rory’s first boyfriend, Dean (Jared Padalecki), town weirdo Kirk (Sean Gunn), and Lorelai’s best friend, Sookie (Melissa McCarthy).

The Netflix revival series ended with Rory pregnant, without revealing who the father of her baby was. 

“Oh, I’m going to be irrational. I’d say a deceased man named Cary Grant. I mean, I don’t know. Who knows?” Struthers said about his identity. 

“That was wonderful to leave a cliffhanger, but the fans must be frustrated!”

Working on “Gilmore Girls” also had some unexpected side effects, she told The Post. 

“It was seven happy years going to Warner Brothers every day and walking on to that set. Talk about a group of fun, crazy, disparate people,” she noted.  

But afterwards, the “A Man on the Inside” actress was playing Golde in a Maine production of “Fiddler on the Roof” and the director said, “I don’t know why you’re talking so fast. And I said, ‘What do you mean?” she recalled. 

After going home to think about it, she returned the next day and told the director, “I’ve just done seven years on ‘Gilmore Girls.’”

She explained to him that series creator and writer Sherman-Palladino “writes the script for a one hour television show that’s about 8 to 9 pages longer than all other one hour television shows. And her writing is so brilliant, she doesn’t want to cut any of the words.”

Sherman-Palladino, “asked us all to just speak faster,” she said, which led to the show’s famous “machine gun” dialogue pattern. 

The actress recalled telling the “Fiddler on the Roof” director, “For seven years I’ve been speaking really fast…. I promise I’ll slow down. I promise I will play Golde at a normal speaking pace!”