Tamera Mowry and Tia Mowry Paras Griffin/Getty Photos
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; in addition to their eponymous Model Community actuality TV present.
Maybe one in every of their most memorable scenes collectively occurred in Twitches, after they chanted “go twitches, go twitches” in unison.
“Tia and I made that up. That was an improv,” Tamera recalled throughout a November 2022 look on In the present day. “We have been so shocked and shocked with happiness that [it was] what caught. My sister and I checked out one another, we did the lame [hand signal] and likewise the ‘go twitches, go twitches.’ We’d pause for a little bit bit [and go] ‘It’s your birthday.’ We made that up on the fly.”
By no means knew how a lot we’d miss ya! Sister, Sister introduced double the sisters and double the enjoyable starting with its debut episode in 1994. The ‘90s sitcom, which ran for six seasons from 1994 to 1999, launched followers to real-life twins, Tia and Tamera Mowry (who performed Tia Landry and Tamera Campbell) and viewers have […]
Tia and Tamera have been additionally maids of honor in each other’s respective weddings to Cory Hardrict and Adam Housley. Nonetheless, someday after Tia and Hardrict divorced in 2022, the sisters’ bond fractured.
“I really feel and need that my sister and I have been nonetheless shut and I may choose up the cellphone and name her, however that’s simply not the place we’re proper now,” Tia confessed in a September 2024 trailer for her My Subsequent Act docuseries. (A supply later clarified to Us Weekly that Tia was referring to the sibling’s geographic distance.)
Hold scrolling to revisit all the pieces Tia and Tamera have mentioned about their relationship by way of the years:
Auntie Vibes
Tia and ex-husband Hardrict share son Cree and daughter Cairo, whereas Tamara and Housley are mother and father to son Aden and daughter Ariah. The actresses have liked being aunts to their nieces and nephews.
“Seeing my sister as a mother is wonderful. She is so inspiring as a result of she is juggling being a mother, being an actress and being a businesswoman on the identical time,” Tamara solely advised Us Weekly in 2011. “She’s doing an incredible job — and she or he’s stunning!”
The following 12 months, Tamara gave beginning to Aden and it was Tia’s flip to brag.
“I’m so thrilled and comfortable to be an auntie,” Tia advised Us in 2012. “I now know the love that my sister has for [my son] Cree, it’s overflowing. I’ve kissed her new bundle of pleasure at the least 100 occasions! I couldn’t be happier for her.”
What ‘Sister, Sister’ Meant
In September 2020, Tamera mirrored on the origins of Sister, Sister.
“All of it started right here with my sissy! What a blessing to have impressed many at such a younger age. Illustration issues,” Tamara wrote through Instagram. “I’m so grateful and I’m so excited for our era to relive one in every of my fav jobs in historical past! And I’m ecstatic for the newer era to find this present, now on @netflix. I by no means thought in one million years #SisterSister would turn into an American basic. Thanks for supporting us all through the years. I’m eternally grateful.”
Having Tia’s Again Submit-Divorce
Tia filed for divorce from Hardrict in October 2022, and Tamara has been vocal about being there for her sibling. (The exes’ divorce was finalized the next April.)
“I assist her. So no matter she needs, the Mowrys have her again,” Tamara mentioned on In the present day that month. “I really like her dearly. She is robust however I do know proper now, she simply sort of simply needs to, you realize, simply sort of course of all of it, take all of it in and be a little bit non-public about that. As a sister, I’m simply going to respect that.”
Two months later, Tamara advised Us that she was impressed to see Tia “dealing with all the pieces with grace.”
“You may have your ups [and] you’ve your downs — however she’s permitting her expertise to vary her. I really feel [like she has changed] for the higher,” the previous Actual cohost solely mentioned. “Issues are usually not at all times gonna go as deliberate or we’re gonna have some plot twists. You [have to] study from it, develop from it and do it with love. I really feel like that’s what she’s doing.”
Birthday Reminiscences
“I wish to take this second to cherish my sister and need an early comfortable birthday to Tamera,” Tia wrote through Instagram in July 2024. “Having you by my aspect as we’ve grown and advanced has been an unbelievable blessing. Not everybody can say they’ve had somebody with them by way of each main milestone in life.”
She added, “From rising up collectively and getting our large break to navigating the teenage years, and motherhood, I’m immensely grateful to have shared this journey with you. Right here’s to celebrating all the gorgeous reminiscences and milestones we’ve skilled and constructed collectively. We’re turning 46! How did we get right here??”
Tia Mowry and her kids and Tahj Mowry Courtesy of Tia Mowry/Instagram
No Longer ‘Shut’
In a September 2024 trailer for Tia’s My Subsequent Act, she opened up about life as a single mom.
“I’ve at all times needed the household dynamic of getting a mother and a dad in a single family. Once you’re dropping your children off, you truly visually see how that’s not,” she mentioned. “Being alone has been essentially the most difficult a part of my divorce.”
Tia added, “It’s occasions like this once I really feel and need that my sister and I have been nonetheless shut and I may choose up the cellphone and name her, however that’s simply not the place we’re proper now.”
Tia didn’t reveal when or why the estrangement started, whereas Tamara has not publicly addressed the supposed falling-out.
A supply later clarified the state of affairs, telling Us, “Tia was referring to bodily distance between them due to the place they each reside, not distance between them because it pertains to their relationship.”