Tamera Mowry and Tia Mowry. Arnold Turner/Getty Photographs for ESSENCE
Tia Mowry candidly mentioned the highs — and lows — that got here with being a baby star alongside her twin sister, Tamera Mowry.
Through the Friday, October 25, episode of Tia Mowry: My Subsequent Act, the actress, 46, defined why she was hesitant about letting her 6-year-old daughter, Cairo, enter the leisure trade, saying, “I discovered generate income and work onerous at a younger age. That has carried into maturity, however on the identical time it’s a curse. You’re only a child, and you’re handled like an grownup.”
Tia famous that her emotions about permitting Cairo to strive appearing “change” relying on the day.
“There was a variety of strain as a baby actor,” Tia recalled of her personal expertise within the limelight as a child. “It’s your job to make individuals smile and snicker. It’s your job — particularly with Sister, Sister — to make this present profitable.”
Tia rose to fame alongside Tamera, 46, once they performed twins on Sister, Sister, from 1995 to 1999. Tia and Tamara went on to costar in Disney Channel’s Seventeen Once more together with their brother Tahj Mowry. In addition they shared the display within the Twitches film franchise, Lifetime’s Double Marriage ceremony and their Model Community actuality TV present.
“My sister and I have been in Texas and we have been doing a variety of pageants and expertise reveals. We have been solely in Los Angeles for 3 years earlier than we booked Sister, Sister, after which life was by no means the identical,” Tia shared on her WeTV collection. “Sister, Sister modified my life.”
The facet that didn’t change for Tia was the bond she shared along with her household.
“The household dynamic actually didn’t change,” she continued. “We had an allowance, chores and we have been nonetheless children. They protected me as a lot as they may, however the issue was they sheltered me a lot as a result of I used to be this baby actor.”
Whereas wanting again on her childhood, Tia felt as if she missed out on sure alternatives, including, “I didn’t get the possibility to do issues different children acquired to do. Like, I didn’t have a variety of mates. At a younger age, I did lose out on a variety of issues. … I really feel like I’m undoubtedly catching up on regular life now.”
Tia subsequently thanked her cousin Jerome Wiggins for his assist. “It’s actually necessary to have Jerome’s opinion and standpoint as a result of he was there with me earlier than I used to be a baby actor and after,” she concluded. “He understands what I went by way of.”
The perception into Tia’s household dynamic comes one month after a trailer for her actuality present made headlines. On the time, a clip of Tia circulated on-line the place she defined how she wished she and Tamera have been “nonetheless shut.”
“[I wish] I may decide up the telephone and name her, however that’s simply not the place we’re proper now,” she mentioned within the premiere of her present earlier this month.
Twins Tia Mowry and Tamera Mowry-Housley have gone by way of their respective appearing careers side-by-side. The siblings rose to fame taking part in separated-at-birth twins on Sister, Sister from 1994 to 1994. Tia and Tamera have since costarred in Disney Channel’s Seventeen Once more (alongside their brother Tahj Mowry) and Twitches franchise; a Lifetime film titled Double Marriage ceremony; as […]
Tia has since clarified to Us Weekly that her feedback have been taken out of context as a result of she was discussing the bodily distance between them.
“You may hear it from me, and that is principally what I used to be insinuating: I really feel like as we develop up, all of us begin our personal households and their youngsters must lean on them. We start to tackle new roles and obligations inside our lives,” Tia defined to Us. “That’s what that was all about.”
Tia continued: “I like my sister very a lot. She loves me very a lot. We have now a closeness and a gorgeous connection. However that’s what that was all about. It’s simply how life unfolds, and it occurs with many households.”
Tia Mowry: My Subsequent Act airs on WeTV Fridays at 9:30 p.m. ET.
